188 Mr. J. N. Kennedy on Birds 



The writer^s records of tliis and the preceding species do 

 not confirm Captain Reid's statement that both species of 

 Curlew remain but a short time after their arrival in August 

 or September. 



Colinus virginianus virginiaims (Linn.). 



The Bob-white was frequently met with in small companies 

 of four or five during the winter, and on 19 January one 

 large covey of twenty birds was flushed among the sand- 

 dunes at Warwick Camp. 



Messrs. Bangs and Bradlee, writing in 1901^ state that 

 this species was " not abundant/^ but now it is a common 

 bird in these islands. 



Several Bermuda specimens have been compai'ed with a 

 large series of skins in the British Museum, from the nearest 

 parts of the mainland^ but no appreciable differences can be 

 discerned between them. 



ChsEmepelia passerina Tbermudiana (Bangs & Bradlee). 



The Ground-Dove is one of the commonest birds of the 

 Bermudas. 



A nest containing young birds about a week old was 

 found on 4 May, twelve feet from the ground on the branch 

 of a cedar. The mother bird sat very closely until the 

 writer^s hand was within a few inches of her^ when she fell 

 to the ground like a stone and " shammed wounded '' by 

 fluttering about in an apparently helpless manner. 



Pandion lialiaetus carolinensis (Gmel.). 

 One fine male 0--!prey was seen by the writer near Gibb^s 

 Hill on 22 April, 1913. 



Ceryle alcyon (Linn.). 



The Belted Kingfisher was met with frequently during the 

 winter. 



It seems quite probable that some of these birds may 

 breed in the Bermudas, for a pair was observed performing 

 a kind of amatory flight on 20 April. They had not yet 

 gone on 25 April, when one was seen in Somerset, but 

 between that date and 7 May, when H.M.S. 'Melpomene' 



