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characteristic of the males during the month of April and May 

 to soar high in the air with wings 'set' and sing their love song. 

 It will be seen from the above that the Long-billed Curlew will 

 have to be excluded from the list of birds which breed in the 

 South Atlantic States. 



Numenius borealis. Esquimaux Curlew. — I have never seen 

 this Curlew alive, but in the Museum of the College of Charles- 

 ton there were many mounted specimens, that were labeled by 

 Dr. Bachman as follows: "South Carolina, Winter." All of 

 these specimens were dust-stained and moth-eaten, and when 

 Dr. G. E. Manigault became the curator they, among other birds, 

 were thrown away as trash. 



Ectopistes migratorius. Passenger Pigeon. — The only Wild 

 Pigeon I ever saw that was killed near Charleston, was shot 

 by a colored man on November 21, 1885, at Sineath's Station, 

 thirteen miles north of Charleston, while he was on a 'deer stand.' 

 I was on the station waiting for the train to go to Charleston, 

 when two hunters came up. One of them took from his bag a 

 young female Wild Pigeon and showed it to me with much pride. 

 As the bird was shot with buck-shot it could not be preserved. 

 While spending a portion of the summer of 1882 at Caesar's 

 Head, Greenville County, South Carolina, I saw two pairs of 

 these birds near the summit of the mountain. 



Ictinia mississippiensis. Mississippi Kite. — This fine bird 

 breeds regularly in considerable numbers near Charleston, but 

 in the region about Yemassee it is an abundant breeding bird. 

 A pair of these kites have bred for ten consecutive years within 

 a mile of my house, and in the same nest for five years. On May 

 28, 1898, I succeeded in finding a man who had the courage to 

 climb the gigantic pine in which the kite had a nest. The nest 

 was 111 feet and 7 inches from the ground and contained one 

 egg. This egg was sent to Dr. William L. Ralph, and is now 

 in the Smithsonian Institution. On May 29, 1902, a single egg, 

 which contained a good sized embryo, was taken from the same 

 nest. The seasons of 1903 and 1904, the birds were found breed- 

 ing within a hundred yards of their former nest, but the tree was 

 so immense that I could not secure a climber. On May 27, 1905, 

 I found that the kites had occupied the nest they had built and 



