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week in November and remain until the close of February. 



Mr. J. Rowland Nowell has taken this form in Anderson county. 



The Prairie Horned Lark breeds in the upper Mississippi Valley 

 eastward to some of the New England states. 



9. Corvus corax principalis Ridgw. Northern Raven. 



The Raven has been known to breed in the mountains of Oco- 

 nee, Pickens, and Greenville counties for more than one hundred 

 years, and still continues to rear its young among the more in- 

 accessible portions of these mountains at the present day. 



The old district of Pendleton, in which Table Mountain or 

 ' ' Table Rock ' ' is situated — one of the breeding places of the Raven- 

 was described in Drayton's View of South Carolina. This dis- 

 trict now comprises the counties of Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens. 



In 1882, I spent a portion of the summer at Caesar's Head, 

 Greenville county, but was unable to secure a specimen. 



Mr. Leverett M. Loomis noted the Raven at Mt. Pinnacle, 

 Pickens county, 1 and at Csesar's Head. 2 He was, however, 

 unable to obtain a specimen. At or near Toccoa, Habersham 

 county, Georgia, this bird still breeds regularly. 



Lieutenant A. W. Greely records a specimen taken at Fort 

 Conger, latitude 81° 44' N. on September 28, 1882, and at Cape 

 Sabine it was observed by him in November, 1883, and February 

 20, 1884. 



10. Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus (Bonap.). Yellow- 

 headed Blackbird. 



Mr. Leverett M. Loomis took an example of this western species 

 at Chester on April 18, 1884, and recorded it in the Auk. 3 Dr. 

 Eugene Edmund Murphey secured a specimen on September 23, 

 1893, at Augusta, Georgia. 



The Yellow-headed Blackbird ranges from Illinois and Wis- 

 consin westward to the Pacific coast. 



11. Icterus galbula (Linn.). Baltimore Oriole. 



This beautiful species is migratory in the upper counties. In 

 his Birds of America, Audubon says: 4 



They do not breed in the lower parts of South Carolina, but are found not 

 unfrequently breeding at the distance of a hundred miles from the sea-coast of 

 that State. 



* Auk, VII, 1890, 124. Usi, VIII, 1891, 328. 8 1, 1884, 293. < IV, 41. 



