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Last year (1939) our intensive collecting took place in North Carolina. To continue that work and to fill in various gaps in the upper Carolina collection, this year was decided to follow up the work in South Carolina making especial study of the Southern Appalachian Range and the south forms along the coastal plain. It was through the courtesy of Mr. ^[[A.A.]] Richardson, Commissioner of Game and Fishes, Columbia, S.C.; officials of National Forests; and many generous land owners that we were able to carry on our work.
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 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 Edisto River. The most 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 zone which occurs in the extreme southern portion of the state. Most of our work was done in Beaufort County in the cypress and deciduous swamps, abandoned farms, salt marshes, and islands -- including Hilton Head. In this area near the coast and on the islands we found considerable palm growth. Painted buntings and chuck-wills-widows were very common. Birdlife in this area was much more abundant than in previous area.
After a fruitful stay in Hardiville we moved northwestward into the Piedmont region in the vicinity of Union, working Union and Newberry Counties