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ceeded in killing four couple. They were all of the do- 
mestic kind,—of a yellow, grey, and black colour; and, 
although the herbage was exceedingly scanty, of good size, 
and excellent condition. 
“When the scanty supply of grass is burnt up by the heat 
of summer, I am inclined to think that these rabbits subsist 
by barking the under side of such branches of cedar (Junt- | 
perus Bermudiana), as grow within their reach; at all 
events, the state of the cedars induced that belief. . 
“This island, like its neighbours in the Sound, is entirely 
without water.” 
AVES. 
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS 
ON THE 
RESIDENT AND MIGRATORY BIRDS OF THE BERMUDAS. 
BY MAJOR J. W. WEDDERBURN (late 42nd Royal Highlanders). 
Turkey Buzzarpd (Cathartes aura). My friend, Mr. 
Hurdis, examined a male specimen of this bird, on the 
29th December, 1853. It was shot by Mr. George Trim- 
mingham, in the latter part of November of that year, at 
