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FIELD WORK WITH BIRDS AND MAMMALS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

By [[underlined]] W. M. Perrygo. [[/underlined]]

Last year (1939) our intensive work in the collection of birds and mammals for the National Museum was in North Carolina. To continue that work in 1940 it was arranged to follow up with investigations in South Carolina, making especial study of the southern and of the Appalachian Range 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. Y. Hoyt as assistant, we began work near Conway in Horry County collecting in the flat pine woods, cypress 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 drainage of the Edisto 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 Hardeeville 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. In this area near the coast and on the