Wayne: Birds op South Carolina. 219 



12. Plegadis guarauna (Linn.). White-paced Glossy Ibis. 

 Under the name Ibis Ordii, this form(?) is mentioned in Coues' 



list 1 as a summer resident, but without comment. Dr. Coues 

 evidently included this bird on purely hypothetical grounds, as I 

 have never seen either this species or Plegadis autumnalis, and am 

 unable to find a single valid record backed by the actual taking 

 of a specimen. 



In his Notes on the Birds of the Sea Islands 2 Mr. Walter Hoxie 

 mentions the "Glossy Ibis" and says: "Rare or only occasional 

 in young plumage; (June 30.)" Mr. Hoxie, however, does not 

 appear to have taken a specimen and the birds he saw were un- 

 questionably the young of the White Ibis. This species has been 

 found breeding in Florida. 3 



13. Erolia ferruginea (Briinn.). Curlew Sandpiper. 



This species is included in Dr. Coues' list 4 on the authority 

 of the late Prof. Lewis R. Gibbes, but without comment. Prof. 

 Gibbes doubtless attributed the Curlew Sandpiper to South Caro- 

 lina on the strength of Audubon's statement: 5 



I have seen a few specimens in New York, and two in Boston; and my friend 

 John Bachman has one or two in his possession. 



The statement that Dr. Bachman had "one or two in his 

 possession" does not prove that they were actually taken in 

 South Carolina, as he may have obtained them elsewhere. The 

 latest record of the occurrence of this bird in North America was 

 a specimen taken at Barnegat Bay, N. J., on July 29, 1904, and 

 recorded by my friend Mr. John Lewis Childs in the Auk. 6 



To the best of my knowledge this species has never been taken 

 in South Carolina. It is an Old- World species, but has been 

 taken in Greenland (where it breeds), Alaska, and at points along 

 the northern Atlantic coast of North America. 



14. Limosa haemastica (Linn.). Hudsonian Godwit. 



This species is mentioned by Dr. Coues 7 as occurring in winter. 

 I know of no record of its occurrence in the State. The statement 



' Proc. Boat. Soc. Not. Hist., XII, 1868, 123. ' Orn. and Obi., X, 1885, 13. 



» See Brewster, Auk, III, 1886, 481-482. *Ptoc. Boat. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1868, 122. 



'Birds of America, V, 269. 8 XXI, 1904, 485. ' Proc. Boat. Soc. Nat. 



Hist., 1868, 123. 



