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by Major Wedderburn, in the winter months of 1848. In 
December, 1849, I fell in with a large flock of these birds 
in Paget parish. There was an appearance of wildness and 
vigour about them, which convinced me they were strangers. 
A small party of eight or ten birds of a different species 
was observed in the midst of these blue birds, moving with 
the flock from place to place. I contrived to get within 
range of the small party, and brought down one specimen, 
which proved to be a cedar waxwing (Bombycilla Caroli- 
nensis), in beautiful plumage, but wanting the waxen ap- 
pendages to the secondaries. It was, consequently, a young 
bird of that year. Now, the cedar waxwing is a rare visitant 
in the Bermudas, and is never known to breed there. These 
cedar birds, then, must have arrived recently in those islands, 
and in all probability had traversed the ocean in company 
with the flock of blue birds they were associating with. 
There is reason to believe that numbers of the native 
blue birds leave the Bermudas with these large migratory 
flocks, thereby causing, as in the summer of 1851, a com- 
parative scarcity of that bird: indeed, but for this supposed 
movement, it would be difficult to account for the annual 
increase of the native birds. 
YELLOW-BELLIED WOODPECKER (P2cus varius). There can 
be no doubt of the migratory habits of this species of wood- 
pecker. In the Bermudas it is a rare and solitary bird, 
seldom seen except in the winter months. In the early 
part of April, 1850, as observed by Major Wedderburn, a 
number of these birds appeared in all parts of those islands. 
I examined six specimens obtained on that occasion, which 
- were all very fat, notwithstanding the distance they must 
have travelled. They were all in female plumage, 7.¢., they 
