NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BERMUDAS. 71 



inch. In other respects, all agreeing with the Audubon 

 and the "New York Fauna." This is a further addition 

 to our list of Bermuda birds. 



A Yellow-shanks and two smaller Sandpipers were seen 

 by Mr. John Tucker at Miss Lloyds' pond yesterday. 



August ird, 1848. — Mr. Hudson Smith tells me that on 

 the 1st instant he saw two fine flocks of real Golden Plover 

 at Burgess' Point ; and this evening, on the approach of a 

 heavy thunder shower, I had the satisfaction of hearing the 

 whistling note of the Yellow-shanks over Hamilton Water, 

 being the first strange note that has fallen on my ear for a 

 long period. 



August 4tk, 1848. — Mr. Wedderburn went over to the 

 Chief Justice's Ponds this morning, and found them teem- 

 ing with Yellow-legged Sandpipers; At 4 p.m. joined him 

 in another visit to the same, and there saw about twenty of 

 the Totanus flavipes, a few Semipalmated Sandpipers, and 

 a few spotted ditto. Brought away three couple of the 

 former, and one semipalmated. Learned from the ferry- 

 man that flocks of the yellow legs were flying about the 

 harbour immediately preceding the thunder shower last 

 evening. Wind south and south-east for some days past. 

 Thermometer 82 and 83°. 



Measured two of the above Yellow-shanks. One was ten 

 and a quarter inches, the other eleven inches,/^//, in length. 

 Both were very fat. 



August gtk, 1848. — Am often told by persons of in- 

 telligence that they have lately seen flocks of birds passing 

 to the southward, very high, and numbering from four to 



