Last year (1959) our intensive collecting took place in lorth 
Carolina, f o continue that work and to fill in various gaps in the upper 
Carolina collection, tbla year it was decided to follow up the work in South 
Carolina making especial study of the Southern Appalachian Kange and the 
southern forms along the coastal plain. It was throu^bt the courtesy of 
Mr. A * • Richardson, Gosaaissioner of Game and Fishes, Columbia, 3. C. j 
officials of National Forests j and many generous land owners that we were 
able to carry on our work. 
Leaving Washington April 8, with J. S. I. Iloyt as assistant, we 
began work near Conway in Horry County collecting in the flat pine woods, 
cypress swamps, and in the salt marshes along the coast* Our 10-day stay 
here netted many interesting and desired specimens . Moving southwestward 
and towards the interior of the coastal plain we settled in Dorchester 
County near St. George, working along the drainage of the Bdisto River. 
The njost of our collecting was done along the cypress swamps , in open pine 
woods, and near the edges of cotton fields. 
Next we moved to Hardiville to investigate the typical Lower 
Austroriparian life sone which occurs in the exkrmm southern portion of the 
state. Most of our work was done in Beaufort County in tttfli cypress and 
deciduous swamps, abandoned farms, salt marshes, and islands — including 
Hilton Mead. In this area near the coast and on the islands we found 
considerable palm growth. Painted buntings and chuck-wills-widows were 
very comon. Birdlife in this area was much more abundant than in previous 
mrmm. ■ 
After a fruitful stay in Hardiville we moved northwestward into the 
Piedmont region in the vicinity of Union, working Union and Newberry Counties 
