64 THE NATURALIST IN BERMUDA. 
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Whether the “red bird” does, or does not migrate to the 
Bermudas, is a question difficult to decide, it bemg im- 
possible to distinguish newly arrived strangers from the 
native birds ; and yet, when we consider for a moment that 
the entire group of islands is of comparatively recent date, 
resting upon an unknown basis, and that they consist of 
broken shell, fragments of coral, and small sea shells, which 
have been washed up from the ocean and moved by the 
force of the wind, or some other power, into their present 
forms ; are we not justified in concluding that the forms of 
animal life existing upon a spot which has thus risen from the 
deep, found their way in the first instance, from the coast of 
America? If such were the case in a remote period, extend- 
ing beyond the reach of history, there is every reason to 
suppose that similar movements occur at the present day. 
SumMMER Rep Brrp (Pyranga estiva). I was present with 
Major Wedderburn when he obtained his male specimen, 
