ZOOLOGY. 4D 
Mangrove Bay, on the 2nd of August, 1848. I killed ano- 
ther, a few days afterwards, at Chief Justice Butterfield’s 
pond, but it unfortunately fell into the middle of the 
swamp, and I could not possibly get it out. 
THE LANDRAIL OF EuRoPE (Crex pratensis). On the 
25th of October, 1847, when out shooting in the dusk of 
the evening, in Pembroke Marsh, my good old dog “ Flora” 
pointed, and a well-known bird took wing, which I most 
fortunately killed, and it proved to be a young male land- 
rail of the year. I sent the specimen to the late Mr. Yarrell, 
and at the sale of his effects, it was purchased by Colonel 
Drummond, who recognized the skin. The occurrence of 
this bird in such an “ out-of-the-way place” as Bermuda, and 
so far to the westward of its line of migration, is most won- 
derful; and it certainly gave me more pleasure to find this 
single bird, than the whole of the other birds put together. 
I sent a notice of the occurrence of this bird to the Zoolo- 
cist, In 1849. 
CAROLINA CRAKE GALLINULE (Ortygometra Carolinus). 
These birds regularly visit the Bermudas, arriving about 
the beginning of September. The first specimen I got was 
at the Sluice Ponds, on the 3rd of September, 1847 ; it was 
settling on a branch of a mangrove tree, about four feet 
from the ground. A few remain throughout the winter. 
In October, 1849, they arrived in immense numbers. I 
killed one, January 17th, 1849, at the Sluice Pond; and 
Mr. Hurdis killed one on the 26th April, 1849, at Warwick 
Pond. I also found a great many of them, in Pembroke 
Marsh, my dog pointing them like quail. They were very 
good to eat, particularly on their first arrival. 
YELLOW-BREASTED RatL (O. noveboracensis). Of this 
