1S91.] LooMis <?« Birds of Chester Cotnity, South Carolina. I y ■? 



are rather common, and in others thej are almost wholly wanting — 

 the local centre of abundance having been transferred to some other lo- 

 cality. This shifting of habitat does not seem to be imputable to cold, 

 as it was illustrated in a marked manner the past winter, 1SS9-90 For a 

 week, at the close of December, 18S9, there appeared to be a slight influx 

 of these Wrens independent of the general migratory movement. In 

 springand autumn, and during genial days in January and February, they 

 are exquisitely vocal. 



201. Troglodytes aedon. House Wren. — Abundant as tiiis bird is 

 said to be in some parts of the State, I have seen but two, and these, 

 May 4. iSSS. 



143. Cistothorus stellaris. Short-billed Marsh Wrex. — No special 

 search has been made for this Wren. Three, however, have been inci- 

 dentally shot since the original one was procured — Oct. S, 10, 18S5 ; Oct. 

 5, iSSS^. 



16. Sitta canadensis. Red-breasted Nuthatch — For a long lime 

 the idea of extreme rarity was associated with the name of this Nuthatch. 

 Over nine j'ears passed before the example of the 'Partial List' was du- 

 plicated. Latterly so many have been collected that it now seems that 

 they must have been overlooked in former years. The first intimation of 

 their comparative abundance came with the securing of three males in 

 October, iSS6; two on the 2d, and the remaining one on the 13th. Sep- 

 tember 28, 188S, a female and two more males were added to the previous 

 number; and in 18S9 a female, Oct. 19, a male, Dec. 14, a female and 

 three males, Dec. 21. The last belonged to a little party that was quar- 

 tered in a pine grove along with a company of Brown-headed Nuthatches, 

 several White-breasted Nuthatches, and a group of Pine Waiblers. This 

 was the first time I ever had the pleasure of finding these three Nut- 

 hatches together in the same piece of woods, and the experience of shoot- 

 ing them in succession was highly novel. Boreal weather is manifestly not 

 to be accounted the cause of their advent, for the thermometer ranged 

 around yo^F. at midday for some time before and after. 



202. Turdusfuscescens salicicolus. Willow Thrush — A typical male 

 was secured Oct. 5, iSSS(Auk, VI, 194). Until an exhaustive study of the 

 'Wood Thrushes' (^Hylocic/ila) has been made, the true position of this 

 Western subspecies in this section must remain uncertain. 



203. Turdus aliciae bicknelli. Hicknell's Thrush. — Of this minia- 

 ture form of the Gray-cheeked Thrush, two charactei-istic exemplifica- 

 tions have been obtained — a male, May 6, and a female, Sept. 17, 1S87. 

 T. alicice is common, and is here as a temporary resident during the 

 first three weeks of May and from the last of September to about the 15th 

 of October. 



[^To be concluded.) 



