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of shell-fish, &c. At the approach of the breeding season they 
separate into pairs, and select the most retired cedar groves for 
their nesting places, the same couple resorting to a particular spot 
for many years, if undisturbed. The nest is a bulky structure of 
sticks and cedar-bark, warmly lined with the latter material and 
with goats’ hair; it is usually in a wide fork, against the trunk, 
and never very high up. Eggs, usually four, exactly like those of 
our European Crows. I have found as many as half-a-dozen nests, 
in various stages of dilapidation, in the same clump of trees—the 
work, doubtless, of the same pair. They seem invariably to build 
a fresh one every year. Only one brood appears to be raised, 
leaving the nest about the end of May.. The earliest nest 1 heard 
of was one containing four fresh eggs, on April 3rd, 1875. Lieut. 
Denison and | found five young birds in one nest, two of which 
were somewhat less advanced in feathering than the remainder; 
and, as we were mobbed all the time we were at the nest by four 
old Crows, we came to the conclusion that the nest must be common 
to both pairs—rather an odd thing, when one considers the solitary 
breeding habits of the species. Mr. Bartram has a specimen 
measuring 214 inches in length, which we at first thought must be 
a Raven, C. coraa, particularly as it did not mix with the other 
Crows, and was shot on a small island it frequented; but subse- 
quent examination inclined me to believe it was only an unusually 
large bird, perhaps a little stretched in stuffing—probably the 
variety C. floridanus of Baird. Ordinary specimens measure 
18 to 20 inches. 
Tyrannus carolinensis, King Bird; Bee Martin.—Recorded as 
very numerous in all the swamps in 1850, but not mentioned as 
occurring at other times, though Mr. Bartram has one or two 
specimens of a later date. It would appear to be only a spring 
visitant. A considerable number appeared in April, 1875, a small 
band of these attaching themselves to the Devonshire and Hungry 
Bay district, where several specimens, male and female, were 
obtained. These were all immature, or rather in winter plumage, 
with the flame-coloured head-patch concealed by black tips to the 
feathers. [Several were seen by me at Hungry Bay on the 22nd 
September, 1875. Unfortunately I did not procure a specimen, 
and so establish the fact of this species visiting Bermuda on its 
southern journey.—H. D.] 
Tyrannus dominicensis, Gray King Bird; Pipiry Flycatcher.— 
