56 THE NATURALIST IN BERMUDA. 
CANADA GOOSE (Anser Canadensis.) 
AMERICAN SWAN (Cygnus Americanus.) Shot i in White’s 
Marsh ; the witnesses still hving. 
GOOSANDER (Mergus merganser). 
BLACK-HEADED GULL (Larus atricilla). Seen by myself 
at Ireland Island. I was fishing from the shore, near Mr. 
Triscott’s house, and it flew close past me. 

FURTHER NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS 
ON THE 
RESIDENT AND MIGRATORY BIRDS OF THE BERMUDAS. 
By J. L. Hurpis, Esq., late Controller of Customs and Navigation 
Laws in those Islands. 
WHITE-HEADED EAGLE (Halaétus leucocephalus). Seen by 
myself and several other persons. 
PEREGRINE FALCON (Falco peregrinus). The falcon here 
mentioned (see Major Wedderburn’s note, p. 25), was im my 
possession to the close of November, 1850. A few days 
previously, it made a desperate attack upon a domesticated 
female gadwall, and was so roughly beaten off with sticks 
and stones, as to cause its death. At this time it was 
gradually changing its plumage, from brown, to a light 
slaty hue. 
A falcon of this species alighted in the ‘pet ard, at 
