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tunately, this specimen was destroyed by a pig before I 
had an opportunity of seeing it. My information was ob- 
tained from Mr. Campbell himself, who had this bird in 
his possession. 
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THE CAHOW. 
Governor John Smith, in his general History of Virginia, 
published in 1629, containing an account of the Bermudas, 
then appertaining to the government of that Colony, men- 
tions a mysterious bird, as found in those islands, and there 
called the “cahow,” which was noticed “for the tune of his 
voice.” As the writer's description of this bird is somewhat 
romantic, I will quote his own words. 
“The cahow is a bird of the night, for all the day she 
lies hid in holes in the rocks, where they and their young 
are also taken with as much ease as may be, but in 
the night, if you but whoop and hallow, they will light 
upon you, that with your hands you may chuse the fat 
and leave the leane: those they have only in winter. 
Their eggs are white.” . 
Purchas, who described the Bermudas a century later, 
viz., in 1738, makes the following statement. 
“ Birds are equally abundant and various, many of the 
species peculiar to the Island; the most singular was one 
called Cowhow, or Cowhie, about the size of a plover, which 
come forth only in the darkest nights of November and 
December, hovering over the shore, making a strange 
hollow, and harsh howling. The most approved mode of 
taking them was by standing on rocks by the sea-side, 
whooping, hallooing, and making the strangest outcries, 
