Vol. XXIII 

 1906 



Wayne, South Carolina Birds. 67 



to the southward of the breeding range of maritimus, and also 

 with it on the North Carolina coast which is indeed an anomalv! 

 Macgillivraii will have to supplant peninsula et fisheri. 



Vireosylva olivacea. Red-eyed Vireo. — The controlling 

 influence upon the migration of this bird in the autumn is the 

 presence or absence of the seeds (fruit) of the magnolia (Magnolia 

 grandi flora). The fruit of this beautiful tree begins to ripen 

 during the first week of September, but the greater part ripens, 

 through October, and many seeds remain in the cones until No- 

 vember. The color is coral-red, and some specimens are about 

 three-fourths of an inch in length, but the great majority average 

 about half an inch. These seeds contain a large amount of oil,, 

 and when this vireo has been feeding upon them for any length 

 of time it becomes very obese. There are many beautiful trees 

 on this plantation, and I have often sat on the steps of the old 

 Colonial house and watched these birds while feeding upon the 

 fruit. The tree that has the most fruit attracts nearly all the 

 vireos in a radius of perhaps a quarter of a mile, and I have often 

 counted as many as fifty vireos in one tree. As long as the fruit 

 is to be had, the vireos remain, but as soon as the supply becomes 

 scarce or exhausted, the vireos depart. 



The Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus), and Redstart (Setophaga 

 ruticilla), also feed upon the fruit of the magnolia. 



Telmatodytes palustris marianae. Marian's Marsh Wren, 

 and Telmatodytes palustris griseus. Worthington's Marsh 

 Wren. — Mr. Outram Bangs, in 'The Auk,' October, 1902, p. 

 353, says that the range of marianae is "Salt marshes of western 

 Florida, non-migratory." I think that Mr. Bangs has overlooked 

 my record, which was the first for the Atlantic coast (see 'The 

 Auk,' October, 1899, p. 361). On October 1, 1898, I obtained 

 a pair (cT and 9 ) which represent the extreme type of coloration, 

 by having the breast heavily barred and spotted. I fail to under- 

 stand why this bird has been reduced to a subspecies. 



Worthington's Marsh Wren is non-migratory, as I have already 

 pointed out in 'The Auk,' October, 1899, p. 362. It is still an 

 excessively rare bird and has never recovered from the losses it 

 sustained by the great cyclone of August 27-28, 1893. When 

 in full adult plumage this wren is unmistakable — being a gray 



