66 THE NATURALIST IN BERMUDA. 
R.N., in December, 1846, which measured twenty inches in 
leneth, and thirty-seven in extent. 
In August, 1854, eleven of these crows were observed 
associating together at Gibb’s Hill, by the late Col. Oakley 
(56th Regt.) This was double the number which had 
hitherto frequented those parts, and arose, doubtless, from 
the young of that season. 
Tn an account of the Bermudas, published by the Governor 
of Virginia, in the year 1623, crows are mentioned, with 
various other birds, as being found on those islands. “These 
crows” the writer observes, “direct their flight towards the 
north-west, at sunset, which makes many conjecture that 
there are some more islands not far off that way ;” and, in 
another part of his book, he says, “this, with divers other 
reasons, caused Master More to go out to sea, to see if he 
could discover any other islands, but he went not far ere ill 
weather forced him to return.” 
It is evident, from this statement, that the crow was a 
native of the Bermudas at that early period, and from the 
gregarious habits of the bird towards evening, its species 
(Corvus Americanus), is placed beyond a doubt. 
I have already remarked in my observations upon the 
Cardinal Grosbeak, that all the birds inhabiting the Ber- 
mudas must, originally, have found their way over sea, 
from the continent of America, as a heap of broken shell, 
&e., washed up from the ocean, could have no productions 
-of its own, in the early period of its formation. 
BiLuE Birp (Sialia Wilsont). Although this beautiful 
and familiar bird appears to be a permanent resident in the 
Bermudas, vast flights of them, sometimes, arrive from the 
American coast. This was particularly the case, as observed 
