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ferent from those generally met with, the body being 

 shorter, and the bill rather longer than usual. The tail 

 contained but eleven feathers, and the lower part of the 

 body exhibited more white than three other specimens 

 which were compared with it. It proved, as I anticipated, 

 a female bird, and the difference of plumage may be 

 accounted for by age. It had every appearance of being 

 an adult bird. 



December 22nd, 1847. — Mr. Wedderburn came home to- 

 day with one Carolina Crake only, as the fruit of a long 

 walk with his dog and gun. This bird was killed at Mr. 

 Harry Tucker's pond, and was a remarkably fine specimen. , 



December 24th, 1847. — Mr. Wedderburn killed another 

 single Snipe this evening in the Governor's Marsh similar 

 to the one shot on the 20th instant, though decidedly a 

 finer specimen. This bird has fourteen feathers in its tail, 

 the under part of the body white, the neck rather short, 

 and the upper plumage brighter and more decided in its 

 colours, and the bill somewhat shorter than that of the 

 previous specimen. 



Both specimens are preserved. 



December 29th, 1847. — Mr. Wedderburn killed one Snipe, 

 and saw two Herons — probably night Herons — rise from 

 the mangrove trees near the sluice gates, at Spanish Point. 



January $tfi, 1848. — Examined a Gull shot by Mr. Wed- 

 derburn near the Hog-fish Beacon, which I consider to be 

 the young of the Larus tridactylus, or Kittiwake Gull of 

 Audubon. It measured fifteen and a quarter inches in 



