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or thirty-five miles per hour only, over the eleven hundred 
and fifty miles of ocean which intervenes between those 
islands, we shall have no difficulty in accounting for their 
appearance at Barbadoes on the morning of the 12th of 
September. Of course, I do not pretend to assert the 
identity of the two flights, although it must be admitted 
that the evidence leans strongly to that conclusion. 
Whence these flights of plover proceed, after visiting the 
West Indian Archipelago, is unknown. There can be little 
room for doubt, however, that the shores of Venezuela and 
Guiana, and the interior of the South American continent, 
will prove to be their destination. 
It is smgular that the course by which this plover 
returns to its northern haunts, should also be unknown at 
the present day. Some writers affirm that it passes rapidly 
through the northern parts of the United States, in small 
flocks, in the spring of the year; this, no doubt, is correct 
with reference to a few, though it still leaves the vernal 
migrations of the millions involved in mystery. 
Sir William Jardine mentions this bird as being found in 
Australia and Hindostan. Let us hope that some observant 
naturalist will favour us with the particulars of its history 
in those possessions, whence it comes, and whither it goes, 
for assuredly it must be migratory in those countries, as 
elsewhere. 
KILDEER PLOVER (Charadrius vociferus). This is the 
latest of the plover tribe which visits the Bermudas, ap- 
pearing from the north in the months of December and 
January. It is found in small flocks, and is conspicuous, 
from the beautiful black band across the breast. Its note 
is peculiarly soft and pleasing. It is not seen in the spring. 
