678 A. E. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. 
gested, by considerable imagination and some fond recollections of a 
favorite locality in England.* 
However, it is peculiar that the same name is not only used for 
the same bird, to this day, by the fishermen in Bermuda, but it is 
also still used for the same bird by the natives in the Bahamas, 
where it breeds. 
Governor Butler’s account, 1619, is as follows: ‘Another smale 
birde ther is, the which, by some ale-hanters of London sent over 
hether, hath bin termed the pimplicoe, for so they imagine (and a 
little resemblance putts them in mind of a place so dearely beloved), 
her note articulates ; and this also, for the most part, is a bird of the 
night, and whensoever she sings is too true a prophett of black and 
foule weather. 
The superstition that this bird is a sign of bad weather still pre- 
vails among the fishermen and sailors. 
This bird was found by Mr. Bartram breeding as late as about 
1874, in the holes and crevices of the rocks on several of the small, 
barren islands about Castle Harbor.g Capt. Reid says that he found 
two nests with young birds in 1874, and kept one alive for some 
time. It always lays its eggs in crevices of the rocks, without any 
definite nest. 
Mr. Wedderburn, Capt. Drummond, and Mr. Ord visited Gurnet 
Head Rock, May 20th, 1850, and found two nests with a young one 
in each, and also secured one egg at that date, but did not see the 
* According to Governor Lefroy, the original Pimlico was a well-known ale 
house and place of resort near Hogsden. It was referred to in ‘‘The Alchemist,” 
act V, sc. i., 1610, and in other works of that period, e. g.: 
‘Sir Lionel. ‘I have sent my daughter this morning as far 
As Pimlico, to fetch a draught of Derby ale, that it 
May fetch a colour in her cheeks.’ Tu Quoque, 1614.” 
The name was subsequently adopted for a similar place near Chelsea, and so 
eventually extended to the whole of that district. 
{In Australia this name is given by the natives to the Friar Bird, on account 
of its peculiar notes, although there is no other resemblance between that bird 
and the shearwater. 
}The accounts of this and the other birds given by Capt. John Smith were 
evidently borrowed, with small verbal changes that did not improve them, 
directly from Butler's Historye, but he seems to credit them to Norwood. 
He added some observations taken from Strachy and Hughes, and made some 
mistakes in his compilations, as when he said the eggs of the Cahow were 
““speckled, the others [egg-birds] white,” just reversing the facts. 
§ Mr. Bartram also found a nest of a larger shearwater (P. Anglorum ?), April, 
1864, and May 1, 1877, on one of these islets. 
