54 THE NATURALIST IN BERMUDA. 
January, 1848, in immature plumage. Colonel Drummond 
shot two near St. George’s on the 4th of February following ; 
one, in adult plumage ; the other, in the plumage of the 
young. I shot another on the 11th of February, 1848, at 
Spanish Point, and several appeared for a few days in 
March, 1849, in Hamilton Water. 
BoNAPARTE’S GULL (L. Bonapartii). I noticed this little 
cull in the Great Sound, on the 23rd of January, 1849, and 
succeeded in shooting it on the 27th of January during a 
strong northerly gale. I saw one on the 15th of December, 
1849, and another was killed by some one on the 24th of 
February, 1850, which last I did not get till the 27th of the 
same month, then too far gone for preservation. 
AMERICAN GULL (L. zonorhynchus). Rare; one specimen 
only having been killed by myself near the Dockyard, 
Ireland Island, on the Ist of January, 1849, during a gale 
from the north-west. 
WESTERN GULL (L. occidentalis). A few specimens have 
been killed; the first, by myself on Darrell’s Island, Novem- 
ber 17th, 1847 ; another, 12th January, 1848, both in their 
brown winter plumage. One or two others were shot near 
St. George’s. I have seen them on several occasions sitting 
on the rocks at Spanish Point, The Ferry, Pearl Island, and 
St. David’s Head. 
HERRING GULL (L. argentatus), I first noticed some of 
these gulls sitting on Long Bird Island, February 23rd, 1848, 
when I killed four of them, and on the 19th of March 
following, a few others were obtained. 
WANDERING SHEARWATER (Pujffinus cinereus.) Mr. Hurdis 
sends me the following note: “Mr. Downes, of the Com- 
missariat, presented me with a living specimen found lying 
