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burn to-day. It measured ten and a quarter inches in 

 length. Mr. Wedderburn was fishing off the North Shore, 

 distant from the land about four miles, when he observed 

 two birds approaching his boat from the northward ; they 

 appeared to be fatigued. Their flight was low and near 

 the water. As they came within long range, one of them 

 was killed — the specimen above mentioned. Mr. Wedder- 

 burn soon afterwards saw a flock of about fourteen birds, 

 come in from the northward and fly in the direction of 

 Goverment House. These also kept near the surface of 

 the sea. 



Mr. Wedderburn supposes them to have been of the 

 same species as the above. 



Wind south-east, day fair. 



July l\st, 1848. — The Rev. R. Mantach tells me he saw 

 two birds " like Plovers " fly over the Breakwater, at Ire- 

 land Island, yesterday, and Mr. Downes, of the Commis- 

 sariat, reports having seen thirteen or fourteen birds on the 

 same day, which were probably the Totanus fiavipes in a 

 flock. 



Mr. Wedderburn returned from Somerset to-day with a 

 young specimen of the Spotted Sandpiper {Totanus macu- 

 larius), two or three Tringa semipalmatas, the same number 

 of Tringa pusilla, and a Sandpiper, with a slightly curved 

 bill. Legs, black glossed with green. Bill, black, upper 

 mandible grooved. Toes connected by membranes like 

 the semipalmateds. Length, six and a half inches. Scapu- 

 lar rufous, black and ash; mixed wings, brownish ash 

 First quill shaft, white. Upper parts, mottled brown and 

 ash. Head and neck of the same colour, but lighter. 

 Lower parts, white, spotted or rather streaked, even to the 



