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on the 19th of April, 1850, and shall long remember the 
thrilling cheer of exultation with which he cast his hat into 
- the air, and hailed me across Penniston’s Pond, to announce 
his having killed a “new bird:” 
SCARLET TANAGER (P. rubra). It is somewhat remarkable 
that the occurrence of this gorgeously plumaged bird should 
be confined to the spring of 1850 and 1851. 
The following is extracted from my note book, May 3rd, 
1851: “A splendid male Tanager was recently observed 
near my own garden; another at St. David’s Island by 
Capt. Drummond, and a third frequented the garden of Mrs. 
Wainwright, near the town of Hamilton, where it was un- 
disturbed, and from which it suddenly disappeared, after a 
stay of three or four days. In the early part of the same 
month, the surgeon of H.M.S. ‘Wellesley,’ shot a male 
specimen of this bird near the Admiral’s residence.” 
AMERICAN GOLDFINCH (Carduelis tristis). Mr. W. Joel, 
who resided on the margin of the Devonshire cedar swamp, 
informed me that several “ yellow birds,” so termed in the 
United States, visited that neighbourhood in March, 1850. 
He described them as small birds, of a bright yellow colour, 
with black wings. These were doubtless the American 
Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis) of Audubon. I searched for 
them in vain, and they are consequently unnoticed in Major 
Wedderburn’s list. : 
LEssER REDPOLE (Linaria minor). In March, 1850, flocks 
of this bird appeared in the neighbourhood of St. George’s, 
where several specimens were obtained. They feed on the 
ripe berries of the sage bush. 
AMERICAN Crow (Corvus Americanus). A fine specimen, 
shot at Spanish Point, was presented to me by Capt. Fayrer, 
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