2 NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BERMUDAS. 



Cardinal Grosbeak, American Crow, White-eyed Greenlet, 

 Ground-dove, and common Gallinule or Moorhen. If you 

 add to these four sea birds, which frequent the coast in the 

 summer season, viz., the Common Tropic-bird, Common 

 and Roseate Terns, and Dusky Shearwater, we shall have 

 eleven species, all common to North America, known to 

 breed in the Bermudas. 



Beyond this, not a feather will be found, except during 

 the season of migration — a negative fact which has cost no 

 small amount of toil and industry to establish. 



The remaining one hundred and twenty-eight birds in- 

 cluded in the ornithology of the islands are chiefly 

 migratory — the accidental visitors being few in number. 

 Here, we meet with the Vulture and Falcon Tribes, the 

 Owl, Caprimulgus, Swift, Swallow, and Fly-catchers ; with 

 Warblers, Thrushes^ Larks, and Finches; with the Rice 

 Bunting, Oriole, Shrike, Waxwing, Kingfisher, Woodpecker, 

 Cuckoo, Dove, Gallinule, and Rail ; with Plover and 

 Snipe, Herons, Bitterns, Ducks, Pelicans, Gulls, Petrels, and 

 Grebes — all of them being birds of North America. 



Three European birds have also been met with, which 

 are said to be unknown to the American continent. In 

 addition to this large number of birds — proved by speci- 

 mens actually brought in — eight others are known to the 

 ornithology of these islands, although no examples re- 

 warded the exertions of resident ornithologists to obtain 

 them, and the occurrence of four other birds is recorded on 

 the reliable testimony of highly respectable individuals. 



The ornithology of the Bermuda group will thus be 

 found to extend to one hundred and fifty-one different 

 birds, the whole number of which — whether native, migra- 

 tory, or accidental — has, at one period or another — water- 

 birds perhaps excepted — passed on the wing over the 

 broad expanse of sea which separates those islands from 



