220 Contributions from the Charleston Museum. 



by Dr. Coues is utterly erroneous, as this bird does not winter in 

 any portion of the United States and is rare during the seasons 

 of migration on the Atlantic coast. That it was attributed to 

 South Carolina on purely hypothetical grounds by Dr. Coues, is 

 indicated by his statement in Birds of the Northwest 1 that "I 

 have never seen it alive." 



Although the Hudsonian Godwit winters as far south as Pata- 

 gonia and the Falkland Islands, it breeds only in the extreme 

 northern part of the North American continent, where its eggs 

 were taken in the Anderson River region by Mr. R. MacFarlane. 



15. Tryngites subruficollis (Vieill.). Buff-breasted Sand- 

 piper. 



Dr. Coues 3 mentions this species as migratory, and in Birds of 

 the Northwest, 3 says: 



This species I have never yet seen alive. 



The Buff-breasted Sandpiper is another species accredited to 

 South Carolina by Dr. Coues on presumptive evidence. I have 

 yet to see this bird in South Carolina, and include it in this list 

 solely on the authority of Mr. W. W. Worthington, who informed 

 me many years ago that Mr. Walter Hoxie had taken a specimen 

 on St. Helena Island, and that he had seen and identified it as a 

 bird of this species. 



The Buff-breasted Sandpiper breeds in the Anderson River 

 region in Arctic America and westward to Point Barrow, and winters 

 as far south as Brazil and the Argentine Republic. 



16. Empidonax flaviventris Baird. Yellow-bellied 

 Flycatcher. 



This species is mentioned by Dr. Coues 4 as a migrant at Co- 

 lumbia in April and September. 



This record, as well as the next (Least Flycatcher) , is doubt- 

 less erroneous and requires confirmation, as Mr. Loomis never 

 met with either this species or the next at Chester, nor have I 

 ever detected these birds in any of the coast counties. When 

 Dr. Coues published his Synopsis of the Birds of South Carolina 

 he was but twenty-six years of age, and had spent only two years 

 in the State. The reason is obvious why so many errors appear 

 in his work at this time. 



' 1874, 494. tProc. Boat. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1868, 123. • P. 507. 



tProc. Bost.Soc. Nat. Hist., 1868, 118. 



