^°S?10^"] General Notes. 465 



Abbott, were representatives of the Rough-winged Swallow {Stelgidopieryx 

 serripennis) . 



"85. Geothlypis trichas. Maryland Yellow-throat. Common among 

 the Sea Islands and on Raccoon Key[s], Bull's Bay, S. C, where it was 

 seen June 12-15." 



The resident breeding form is Geothlypis trichas ignota, and all birds 

 "seen" were of this race. 



"91. Telmatodytes palustris. Long-billed Marsh Wren. A Marsh 

 Wren was very common in the marshes around Bull's Bay, S. C, and the 

 rookeries on Secessionville and St. James [James] Island. Seen and heard 

 June 10, 11, and 15. None was collected, and the form is doubtful. No 

 nests were found and no young seen." 



The form is by no means "doubtful," for they were all representatives 

 of Telmatodytes palustris griseus. 



It is indeed remarkable that the birds mentioned by Mr. Philipp, during 

 five days spent on the South Carolina coast, and as merely having been 

 "seen," should have escaped my notice during more than forty-seven 

 years spent in and about Charleston. 



In his account of 'Bird Photographing in the Carolinas' (x\uk, XXVII, 

 July, 1910, 305), Mr. B. S. Bowdish says: "As we passed out from the 

 dock [Charleston] we took several memento views of the water-front, 

 the customhouse, and a lighthouse relief ship. Further down the bay 

 we caught snaps of historic old Fort Sumter where was fired the first gun 

 in the Civil War, and a little further out met a torpedo boat destroyer com- 

 ing in." In order that history may not be perverted I will state that the 

 "first gun" in the great Civil War was fired on January 9, 1861, from the 

 battery on Morris Island occupied by Citadel cadets under command of 

 the late Bishop (Maj.) P. F. Stevens, and was directed at the 'Star of 

 the West,' a United States steamer that was trying to enter Charleston 

 Harbor to re-inforce Fort Sumter, commanded by Maj. Robert Anderson. 



More errors could be corrected in Mr. Philipp's Ust, but these are 

 mostly minor errors.— Arthur T. Wayne, Mount Pleasant, S. C. 



