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ground was sncli tliat I could not recognize the bird, but a peculiar darkness 

 about the head made me desiroiis of obtaining the specimen, for I could not 

 place it among any of the Warblers that I thought Hkely to be met "with. I 

 shot tbe bird and to my surpiise found it to be a fine male specimen of th.e 

 Ked-bellied Nuthatcb, ( Sitta canadensis). 



I can find no direct quotation of any previous capture of this species in 

 South Carolina. 



Audubon says ' ' Southern limits seldom farther than Maryland * * * some 

 at the approach of Winter venture as far as South Carolina, altho' never seen 

 in the maritime districts of that State. " 



Coues says ' ' North America at large, in wooded regions, but rather North- 

 erly (to 60° or farther ). South, however, to the Mexican Border. * * * * 

 a/pparently wanting in the Southern States, its place being supplied by the pe- 

 culiar Sitta pusilla, along with Sitta carolinensis. " 



Unless I am mistaken, this will prove the first occurrence of Sitta canaden- 

 sis, certainly so near the seaboard, in South Carolina. This capture was con- 

 sequent upon a verj^ cool change. 



The ClialriQaii read an incomplete report of liis obsevations upon 

 Earthquakes occuiTing in South Carohna in the last half centuiy. 



Memhers Elected. 



Dr. John Guiteras, Dr. Chas. W. Kollock. 



33d ANNIVERSAKY IMEETING. 



NOVEIVIBER 25th, 1886. 



The President in the Chair. 



Books Received. 



Boston Society of Natui^al History: Memoirs, Vol. Ill, Nos. 

 11-12 ; and 



Proceedings, Vol. XXIII, Pai't 2. 



