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Moving northwestward to Walhalla, we collected along the Chat- 

 tooga Ridge in Oconee County. Here we found golden-winged and 

 worm-eating warblers and mountain vireos in abundance. 



The final area for the summer was in the vicinity of Caesar's 

 Head in Greenville County, where we collected along Standing Stone, 

 Caesar's Head, Bradford, and Sassafras Mountains — the latter being 

 about 3,500 feet in elevation, and the entire area the most elevated in 

 the State. The slopes are steep and deciduously wooded and housed 

 more of the mountain forms than the previous section despite the 

 absence of typical Canadian flora. A few pairs of song sparrows were 

 nesting here, in addition to chestnut-sided warblers. This completed 

 the spring and summer investigation for the season, and we returned 

 to Washington July 23. 



Accompanied by John Webb, of the Division of Birds, I left for 

 the fall collecting trip September 14. Our first stop was at Rock Hill 

 above the fall line in northern South Carolina. Most of our work 

 was along the rolling hills bordering the Catawba River and in the 

 wooded bottom lands so typical of the Piedmont region. In spite of 

 the unusually warm weather we found representatives of the birds 

 that we needed to tie in with those collected in North Carolina 

 just to the north along the same river during the previous year. On 

 October 2 we moved eastward to Cheraw to work along the Pee Dee 

 River. The swamps along the river yielded valuable specimens. 



On October 16 we continued southward to Allendale to complete 

 the work along the Savannah River. Through the courtesy of R. B. 

 Vance, of Allendale, who gave us permission to collect on his farm, 

 we found an excellent concentration of bird life in the cypress swamps 

 and open pine woods, and along the edges of the fields — all within a 

 short radius, which is most unusual for the coastal plain. Brown- 

 headed nuthatches, red-cockaded woodpeckers, Bachman sparrows, 

 and other birds typical of these habitats were rather numerous. 



The next 2 weeks were spent in Olanta working along the Lynches 

 River, one of the slow-moving tributaries of the Pee Dee River. 

 The final area centered around McClellanville, in Charleston County, 

 where we had an excellent stay, collecting in the salt marshes near 

 Cape Romain Wildlife Sanctuary. Sharp-tailed and seaside spar- 

 rows, rails, and boat-tailed grackles were seen in great numbers. In 

 the interior we worked in the Francis Marion National Forest. The 

 red-cockaded woodpecker was more abundant here than in any area 

 investigated. Equally abundant were wild turkeys which are said to 

 be descendants of the original wild strain native to this area. De- 

 cember 1 brought the survey to a close. 



