Vol. XIV 
1897 
General Notes. 203 
Uria lomvia in South Carolina.—My young friends Rowland and 
Herbert Nowell have sent me a specimen of Briinnich’s Murre taken near 
Anderson, S. C., Dec. 19, 1896. Anderson is the seat of the county of the 
same name, in the extreme northwestern portion of the State, lat. about 
34° 36’ N., long. 5° 38’ W. from Washington, not far below the Blue Ridge, 
and about 196 miles from the nearest point on the sea-coast, which would 
be in the vicinity of Beaufort. The bird was captured about three miles 
southwest from the city, in an open field near a creek. It was found by a 
hunting dog, which pointed it and then ran up to it; the bird pecked at 
the dog, and also at the man who came to pick it up. It could not fly, 
though it showed no bruises or evidences of injury when, having been 
kept alive till the 23d, and fed on raw meat, it died and was skinned. 
The specimen is a bird of the year, identical with various others I have 
compared in the U. S. National Museum. Bill black, small, perfectly 
smooth, with a rather sharper gonydial angle than usual; eyes brown, 
feet light brown. Length 15.75; extent 28.75; wing 7.70; tail 2, rounded ; 
culmen 1.20; gonys 0.63; height of bill 0.42; width 0.27; tarsus 1.30; 
middle toe and claw 1.96. (Fresh measurements by the Messrs. Nowell.) 
Plumage as usual for this age and season. 
This is, I think, the first record of the species for South Carolina. The 
individual is one of what must have been a large flight of these birds 
about the middle of last December. ‘Forest and Stream’ of Feb. 6, 1897, 
notes one taken Dec. 17, 1896, and another Dec. 19, 1896, both at Cape 
Charles, Va., where also was a King Eider taken Jan. 2, 1897. I hear of a 
number of other cases of Briinnich’s Murre beyond its ordinary range 
about this time; some of them will doubtless reach ‘The Auk’ with this 
one. On looking up the weather record, I find that there was an area of 
atmospheric depression at Charleston, S. C., at 8 A.m. of Dec. 15; it 
travelled rapidly northeastward on the 15th and 16th, and was severe 
along the coast from N.C. to Maine on the night of the 15th, on the 
16th, 17th, and part of the 18th. This storm-center evidently caused the 
dispersion of comparatively large numbers of northern sea-birds inland, 
far beyond their normal flights. —ELL1otT Coues, Washington, D. C. 
The Terns of Dyer’s and the Weepecket Islands.— On June 23, 1896, I 
landed on Dyer’s Island in Narragansett Bay, a small island of some 
twenty acres in extent and covered on the lowlands with beach grass and 
on the uplands with blackberry (Aeubus canadensis) and bayberry (Myrica 
cerifera). 
Before landing I could see a few Terns hovering above the island; there 
proved to be, however, some ten pairs inhabiting it, asa number of counts 
made twenty birds in the air after I landed, and [ believe that they do not 
wander far during the day. 
The Terns were all Wilson’s (Sterna hirundo), and I found but one nest 
on the island, which contained three eggs; it was a typical nest, —a few 
grasses on the sand amid the beach grass. The eggs would have hatched 
