86 THE NATURALIST IN BERMUDA. 
plumage, I experienced some difficulty in identifying it. 
Audubon and Wilson are seldom sufficiently explicit in the 
descriptions of female and immature plumage, but with the 
aid of De Kay’s New York Fauna, I was enabled to ascer- 
tain the species. This specimen was remarkable for having 
the eyelids of a bright yellow colour, and the eyes sur- 
rounded by a large white patch; the former characteristic 
is not mentioned by any author that I am acquainted with. 
BLUE-WINGED TEAL (A. discors). This beautiful species 
of the duck genus is decidedly migratory, and not unfre- 
quently visits the Bermudas on its southern flight. About 
the 20th of September it is first met with, and continues to 
be seen at different periods until the 24th of December. 
In the month of October, however, they are most numerous, 
particularly when a storm is raging, or has passed between 
those islands and the American coast. On its vernal mi- 
gration to the north it 1s very rarely seen, and then only at 
the end of March, or beginning of April. 
Nine couple of these teal were shot in the Pembroke 
marshes, after the gale of the 22nd of October, 1854, and 
many more at St. David’s Island, where a native sportsman 
is said to have killed sixteen couple of them during the gale. 
SURF SCOTER (fuligula perspicillata). Another specimen 
of this bird was shot in the Pembroke Marshes, by Mr. 
Fozard, on the 7th of October, 1854. 
Scaup Duck (#. maria). A scaup precisely similar to 
those shot by Major Wedderburn, was killed by Mr. C. C. 
Abbott (20th Regt.), on the 19th of December, 1846. All 
these birds measured from sixteen to sixteen and a quarter 
inches in length. The delicate pencilling of the second 
plumage was beginning to spread in the rich brown of the 
