I ?o Loomis, Summer Birds of Pickens County, S. C. [April 



67. Harporhynchus rufus. Brown Thrasher. 'Thrasher.' — Nol 

 abundant, and mainly confined to the open vallevs. A male was shot, 

 while singing, on the edge of a clearing at about 2000 feet, which was the 

 highest altitude at which the species was discovered. 



6S. Thryothorus ludovicianus. Carolina Wren. — Met with every- 

 where — on the pinnacle of the highest point in the State, over the slopes, 

 and in the vallevs. Very common. As often happens, nests were found 

 in curious locations. One was situated in a little wooden box nailed to a 

 tree by the wayside for the reception of the mail of the owner of a house 

 a little back from the roadway. The site of another was a tin gallon 

 measure placed, upright, on a high shelf in an open log out-building. 

 The parents did not seemingly object to the measure being taken down 

 and the young inspected. Well incubated eggs, June 23, 1S87. and 

 young just hatched, July 10. iSS6 : apparently signify that, second broods 

 ate habitual. 



69. Thryothorus bewickii. Bewick's Wren. — The only records I 

 have are July 12, 1886, and June 19. 1889. On the former occasion an 

 individual was seen, and on the latter an adult male taken. Both were in 

 the Oolenoy Valley at the foot of Mt. Pinnacle. 



70. Sitta carolinensis. White-BR BASTED NUTHATCH. — Haunting par- 

 ticularly the hardwood forests, it was common at all heights. 



71. Sitta pusilla. Brown-headed Nuthatch. — This Nuthatch was 

 tolerably common among the pines interspersed throughout the lesser 

 eciduOUS growth, reaching upward, along the sterile ridges, to nearly or 

 quite 2000 feet. 



-2. Parus bicolor. Tufted Titmouse. — Abundantly ami evenly dis- 

 persed over the wooded country, irrespective of elevation. 



73. Parus carolinensis. Carolina Chickadee. — Like its congener, 

 /'. bicolor, of abundant and universal distribution. P. atricafillus was 

 sought for in vain. 



74. Polioptila caerulea. Blue-GRAY GNATCATCHER. — Tolerably com- 

 mon in the valley of the Oolenoy. Not noted on the highlands. 



75. Turdus mustelinus. Wood Thrush. — As the mountain region 

 is approached, the Wood Thrush becomes more and more prominent, the 

 cool hollows shaded by large oaks anil other deciduous trees affording 

 congenial residence. In the mountains, I found them most numerous 

 from the mid-elevations upwards, hut I think the local environment, more 

 than the altitude, occasioned their abundance. So common were they 

 that several performers were often heard at a time in a narrow area — 

 even in the heat of midday. First young shot June 13. 



76. Sialia sialis. BLUEBIRD. — Common. Owing to the nature of 

 their haunts necessarily restricted in a large degree to the open lowlands. 

 On Mt. Pinnacle occurred at about 3000 feet in a little chestnut "deaden- 

 ing' — the only suitable nesting place near the summit. 



