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vously now and then, and at, my first move it slid into the water and dis- 

 appeared so suddenly that I was almost sure that it had dived, and 1 

 did not see it again. The chick I had left partly in the shell about one-half 

 hour before was now free and struggling to rise. After placing my camera 

 and when nearly ready to make the exposure another chick appeared at 

 the edge of the nest, peeped faintly and was answered by the chick in the 

 nest. Then it climbed up the side and into the nest, climbing over the 

 newly hatched one and I got the picture showing the older one with its 

 wing (showing both digits) resting on an egg and the younger one not yet 

 dry. 



I took the older one home with me and it seemed content to nestle in 

 my hand or in a basket. One-half hour later I put it back into the nest 

 and the younger one was not yet dry. They were both quite lively but did 

 not attempt to leave the nest. 



The young are born with their eyes open. The body is covered with a 

 thick down, jet black and sooty black beneath; the head and wings are 

 nearly naked; base of bill bright carmine; end of bill orange yellow; a 

 tuft of down under the chin white, with a sprinkling of fine black, giving 

 it a silvery appearance. The eyes show purplish through the skin. The 

 outer digit of the wing is armed with a hooked spur or claw about one-eighth 

 of an inch long, and I noticed a young one use the wing to pull itself up the 

 side of the nest. The feet and legs are dull black. 



June 28, there were but two eggs left in the nest and both were pipped. 

 I caught a youngster just as it was getting away through the flags and it 

 was the only one that I could find. I put it up on some bent over flags and 

 got a good picture showing it nearly three-fourths life size with the bare 

 wing and claw and the white beard prominent. It is almost impossible 

 to catch a glimpse of a young one in the nest after they get dry as they 

 leave immediately if they hear one coming, but after I had caught and put 

 them back into the nest they remained still and I had no trouble to focus 

 my camera and make exposures. 



I heard the female about several times when I was at the nest but she 

 did not show herself. I visited the nest several times after this date but 

 saw no more of the family. — Verdi Bitrtch, Branchport, N. Y. 



Wilson's Phalarope, A New Species for South Carolina. — On the 



7th of September, 1910, while shooting on the eastern end of Sullivan's 

 Island, near Charleston, South Carolina, I killed a Wilson's Phalarope 

 {Stcganopus tricolor). The bird is a male in winter plumage. It had 

 alighted with about fifteen Yellow-legs on the edge of a freshwater pool 

 left by recent rains. The pool is among sand dunes a few hundred yards 

 from the nearest house and near the car lines. Sullivan's is one of the 

 sea islands and is thickly settled except where the bird was found. The 

 specimen has been deposited in the Charleston Museum (Spec. No. 7249). 

 This is the first record for the species in South Carolina, and, so far as I 

 know, for the Atlantic coast south of New Jersey. — Burnham Chamber- 

 lain, Charleston, S. C. 



