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a salt-water tub occasionally, which he thoroughly enjoyed. He 
slept a great deal during the day, and usually got behind an open 
door—the darkest place he could find—for his “siesta.” When 
I took him from the nest he was nearly able to fly, but still 
retained the long nestling-down of the young bird, slate-coloured 
on the head and shoulders, light brown on the under parts; the 
former soon rubbed off, but the latter was more permanent, and 
was not got rid of for some days. The nests were simple holes 
in the face of the rock—my bird had barely room to turn round 
in his. There was no unpleasant smell about the nests or young 
birds, the peculiar—and to me not disagreeable—odour of the 
Shearwater tribe being alone distinguishable by its presence. 
I saw uothing of the old birds, who were in all probability far out 
at sea at the time. An egg of this species, kindly presented to me 
by Mr. Bartram, is, of course, pure white: it has a considerable 
polish, and is about the size of a bantam’s, but less elongated in 
form. Mr. Bartram was good enough also to present me with two 
skins of the adult bird. He tells me that the statement made by 
the old historians of Bermuda as to the capture of the “ Cahow” 
at night is no exaggeration; for, on visiting an island one night 
where there were several pairs breeding, he quickly caught half-a- 
dozen of them, the stupid things settling on his body as he lay 
on the ground, and allowing themselves to be taken in his hand! 
| know of only one instance of a “Cahow” being seen on the 
wing in the daytime in Bermudian waters: this was in August, 
_ 1874, when one was shot crossing Castle Harbour, by Lieut. 
Hopegood, 97th Regiment. 
Podiceps cornutus, Horned Grebe.—One shot by Dr. Cole, on 
the 24th November, 1846, is now in the Rev. H. B. Tristram’s 
collection. One was killed by Capt. Tolcher, 56th Regiment, near 
Spanish Point, on the Ist February, 1855: it was in company with 
three or four others. Mr. Bartram has two specimens of different 
dates. 
Podilymbus podiceps, Pied-billed Grebe; Water Witch.—Three 
are recorded in ‘The Naturalist in Bermuda’—two obtained in 
October, 1849, and one by Major Wedderburn, in February, 1850. 
Mr. Hurdis once found a perfect skeleton of this bird by the side 
ofa pond. Tolerably abundant in the winter of 1874-5, especially 
at Trott’s and Basden’s Ponds. The way in which these birds 
can sink under water, without leaving a ripple behind, is truly 
