78 THE NATURALIST IN BERMUDA. 
AMERICAN RING PLOVER (C. semzpalmatus). I have met 
with this species from the 16th of August, to the latter part 
of October, when it disappears on its southern migration. 
PrpIncG PLOVER (C. melodus). On the 22nd of September, 
1850, two of these very pretty dove-coloured plover were 
observed feeding on the rocks in Hamilton Harbour. They 
had a very soft and musical note. 
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER (C. helveticus). The specimen 
killed by Major Wedderburn was an adult in full plumage. 
That the young of this species is frequently mistaken for 
the golden plover there can be little doubt. In looking over 
what were supposed to be fine specimens of the latter, their 
superior size, viz.: eleven and sometimes twelve inches in 
length, the larger head, and the mottled black of the under 
plumage, have inchned me to believe that they belonged to 
the black-bellied species. The leneth of C. marmoratus, 
may be set down at ten and a half inches for the larger 
specimens, and ten inches for the smaller ones. 
SANDERLING (Tringa arenaria, of Audubon). In October, 
1854, I found two specimens. of this bird in a collection of 
skins preserved by Capt.’Tolcher (56th Regt.), both of which 
had been shot in the Bermudas. 
The sanderling has been found in those islands from the 
4th of September to the 10th of November. 
GREAT BLUE Heron (Ardea Herodias). This wary bird is 
not unfrequently met with on the shores and creeks of the 
Bermudas. I never observed it for several years, without 
noting the circumstance, and have no doubt in my own 
mind, of its migratory habits. It is first seen about the 
19th of September, continues to arrive in the month of 
October, when it is sometimes rather common, and is only 
