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islands we found considerable palm growth. Painted buntings and chuck-will-widows were very common, and birdlife in general was much more abundant than in previous areas. 

After a fruitful stay in Hardeeville we moved northwestward into the Piedmont region in the vicinity of Union, working Union and Newberry Counties in Sumter National Forest. In old broom-sedge fields we found Bachman's sparrows, and along the streams were the usual types of birds occurring in such localities. Journeying southwestward along the Savannah River, we settled at McCormick, when again the Sumter National Forest offered us ample collecting grounds over the pine covered rolling hills in McCormick, Edgefield and Abbeville Counties. One of the most interesting finds here was the nesting of the mountain vireos which we had known elsewhere only in more elevated regions in the mountains. While here J. C. Calhoun joined us to assist primarily in mammal collecting. 

As the mountain forms of birds were now located in their summer homes we moved northwestward to Walwalla where we collected along the Chattooga Ridge in Oconee County. As the mountains are only slightly above 3000 ft. and are almost on the extreme southern end of the Appalachian Rnage, they lack the firs typical of the Canadian Zone.

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,