FIELD WORK ..ITH BIRDS AND MAMMALS IN SOOTH CAROLINA. 
By M« M. Perryjgo. 
Last year (1939) our intensive w>rk in the collection of birds 
and mammals for the National Museum was in North Carolina. To con- 
tinue that work in 1940 it mi arranged to follow up with Investigations 
in South Carolina, staking especial study of the southern and of the 
Appalachian Bangs and the southern forms along the coastal plain. 
Through the courtesy of Mr. A. A. Richardson, Commissioner of Game and 
Fishes, Columbia, S. C, officials of the National Forests, and many 
generous land owners we were able to make the necessary arrangements. 
Leaving Washington April 8, with J. S. T. Hoyt as assistant, we 
began work near Conway in Horry County collecting in the flat pine woods, 
cypres 8 swamps, and in the salt marshes near the coast. Our 10-day 
stay here netted many interesting and desirable specimens. Then moving 
southwestward further towards the interior of the coastal plain we 
settled in Dorchester County near St. George, working along the drain- 
age of the Edlsto River. The most of our collecting was done in the 
cypress swamps, in open pine woods, and near the edges of cotton fields. 
Next we moved to Hardeevllle to investigate the Lower Austroriparian 
life zone as it occurs in the extreme southern portion of the state. 
Most of our work was done in Beaufort County in the cypress and deciduous 
swamps , and through abandoned farms, salt marshes, and islands the 
latter including Hilton Head. m this area near the coast and on the 
