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small horns.” No other examples are recorded. [Two frequented 
the islands in the autumn of 1875. One of these was shot by 
Lieut. Tallents, 20th Regiment; the other escaped, though it 
remained two months or more.—H. D.] 
Surnia ulula, var. Hudsonica, Hawk Owl.—A single specimen 
was “seen by Col. Drummond at St. George’s, quite close to him, 
on a Sunday afternoon, otherwise it would have been shot” (Nat. 
in B., p. 55). 
Nyctale acadica, Acadian Owl; Saw-whet.—A rare straggler. 
Major Wedderburn’s notes contain all the information we possess. 
He says (Nat. in B., p. 25):—‘‘Only one specimen, found on 
the 12th January, 1849, sitting inside the muzzle of one of the 
guns at Ireland Island by an artilleryman. It is to be hoped that 
the said gunner has more nerve when working a gun than he 
displayed on finding the little bird, being afraid to catch it, as he 
said ‘it glow’red at him.’ It was caught by a man of the 42nd, 
and lived in my room for several days, getting quite tame. At 
night it always became restless, and finally killed itself against the 
wires of the cage. Mr. Harry Tucker saw another some short time 
afterwards, in a cave on the south shore.” 
Circus cyaneus, var. Hudsonius, American Marsh Hawk.— 
Whether this bird be a good species, or merely a climatic sub- 
species, race, or variety, I am at a loss to understand, so conflicting 
are the opinions of naturalists on the question. 1 have, however, 
Dr. Coues’s authority for the name above assigned to it, which 
designates it as a geographical variety of our European Hen 
Harrier, C. cyaneus. It is occasionally seen in Bermuda in the 
autumn. One was shot by Mr. Pooley, 20th Regiment, in 1845, 
and one by Mr. Hurdis in December, 1851. Mr. Bartram has a 
male and two female specimens. As might have been expected, 
he was somewhat unwilling to believe that they were of the same 
species. A female was picked up dead in Warwick parish in 
November, 1874, by a “coloured” boy, who showed it to me, too 
late for preservation unfortunately. 
Accipiter fuscus, Sharp-shinned Hawk.—Major Wedderburn has 
a specimen in his collection, shot near Penniston’s Pond on the 
23rd February, 1853, and Mr. Bartram has another, shot by himself 
near Stock’s Point. 
Astur atricapillus, American Goshawk.—I] examined two speci- 
mens in Mr. Bartram’s collection, the only ones that have occurred. 
