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while on her voyage from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to these 
islands. The vessel was in latitude 41-10 N, and longi- 
tude 63-40 W, at the time, and the wind blowing very 
fresh from the south-west. The owl was alive when landed, 
but so weak, as barely to be able to stand, and it died the 
following day. 
Length, 84 inches; wing, from carpal joint, 6} inches ; 
third and fourth quills, longest. Compared it with Audubon 
and Yarrell, and have no hesitation in pronouncing it to 
be a genuine specimen of Tengmalm’s Owl. Though not 
actually a visitant to these islands, it was, doubtless, on its 
southern flight, when fallen in with by the “Robert,” and, 
but for that occurrence, might have been entitled to a place 
in our list of Bermudian Birds. 
BLACK-BILLED WHISTLING Duck (Dendrocygna arborea). 
This bird is sometimes introduced into the Bermudas from 
Turk’s Islands, where it is found in a state of nature, and 
reared from the nest as a semi-domestic bird. 
Although a native of the Bahamas, no wild specimen of 
this duck has been met with in the Bermudas. 
