Wayne: Birds of South Carolina. 225 



cies when breeding in a cypress swamp. The nests of the Egret 

 (Herodias egretta), while in close proximity to the nests of the 

 Night Heron, were always in exposed situations, so that the sun- 

 light could always warm the eggs. 



Fulica americana (Gmel.). Coot. 



A male coot was taken at Otranto, May 14, 1910, by Master 

 Caspar Chisolm. A number of specimens were observed on the 

 following day, at the same locality, by Mr. Herbert R. Sass, who 

 searched for nests without success. Further observations are 

 necessary to establish conclusively the standing of this species. 



Cryptoglaux acadica (Gmel.) . Saw- whet Owl. 



My friend Dr. Eugene Edmund Murphey informs me that a 

 specimen of this species was taken in Aiken County in February, 

 1899, and was on exhibition in a gunsmith's store in Augusta, 

 Georgia, where he saw and examined it, before it was ruined by 

 the flood of August, 1908. 



It must be remembered that the coldest weather ever recorded 

 in this state was experienced in February, 1899, and the bird in 

 question was probably forced southward by the cold wave. 



Spiza americana (Gmel.) . Dickcissel ; Black-throated 

 Bunting. 



I am pleased to announce the capture of a superb male of this 

 species, on the morning of May 13, 1910, at Oakland Plantation, 

 Christ Church Parish, within fifty yards of the spot where I took 

 Sprague's Pipit in 1893. 



The Black-throated Bunting was flushed from a salt meadow, 

 and lighted on a dead oak, where I at once identified it, although 

 its back was towards me, and the morning was cloudy. This is 

 only the second of these birds that I have ever seen. 



Dendroica caerulea (Wils.). Cerulean Warbler. 



In April and May, 1909, I discovered three or four pairs of this 

 species breeding near Morganton, in North Carolina, thus con- 

 firming the suggestion of Mr. Loomis that the appearance of these 

 birds at Chester early in August leads to the inference that they 

 breed near at hand in the mountains. 



IB* 



