vi Contributions from The Charleston Museum 



the term Carolina was used to refer to South CaroHna. The 

 Lords Proprietors were overthrown by the revolution of 1719 

 and North and South Carolina were formally separated by the 

 British parliament ia 1729. 



Catesby's work is important not only for its in trinsic worth bub 

 because Linnaeus based his descriptions of American birds chiefly 

 upon Catesby's figures and descriptions. 



Audubon and Bachman were the next ornithologists after 

 Catesby to discover birds new to science in some numbers. 

 Audubon's accounts of South Carohna birds were based chiefly 

 upon the observations of Dr. John Bachman of Charleston. 

 Bachman discovered four new species and Audubon three, but 

 all of these were figured and described by Audubon. 



The Hst on the following pages includes only those species for 

 which South Carolina is imquestionably the type locahty. There 

 is reason to believe that the Nonpareil (Passerina eiris Linnaeus) 

 may be credited to South Carolina with as much propriety as to 

 Vera Cruz, which is the type locahty usually assigned. Catesby 

 figured and described this species and Linnaeus refers to Catesby. 

 As is not usually the case, Linnaeus had, in addition to Catesby's 

 figure and description, a specimen of this species which he said 

 evidently came from India on account of its brilliant colors, 

 although it was received in Sweden from Spain. This has led 

 to the belief that the specimen must have come from one of the 

 Spanish colonies and, Habana and Vera Cruz being the chief 

 exporting cities, someone has assigned Vera Cruz as the probable 

 type locahty. It is certain, however, that Catesby adequately 

 described this species from South Carolina in 1731; that the 

 assumption of Vera Cruz as the source of Linnaeus' specimen is 

 exceedingly doubtful, and even that Catesby might have sent 

 one or more specimens from Carohna to friends in Spain. 



I am greatly indebted to my friend Mr. J. H. Riley of Falls 

 Church, Virginia, for sending me from the original edition of 

 Catesby both the Latin and EngUsh names of more than twenty- 

 one species in this hst. A. T. W. 



Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, 

 December 9, 1916. 



