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thirty ; and the master of a small vessel just arrived from 

 Baltimore, tells me that at sea the night before last he 

 heard a flock of birds pass over the vessel, but in what 

 direction they were flying he could not say. 



August nth, 1848. — Visited Mr. Harry Tucker's pond 

 and Hungry Bay in the expectation of meeting with a few 

 Swallows. Saw nothing but two or three Spotted Sand- 

 pipers {Totanus macularius), of which I killed one specimen. 

 Found the Chief Justice's pond occupied by a coloured 

 sportsman. 



August 13th, 1848. — Mr. Wedderburn informs me he shot 

 a Swallow {Hirundo rustica) at Mangrove Bay yesterday, 

 and that the Rev. H. B. Tristram had observed three of 

 these birds a few days before about the glacis at Ireland 

 Island. 



August \6th, 1848. — Again visited the Chief Justice's 

 pond, and found a flock of seven or eight Yellow-shanks 

 and one Spotted Sandpiper there. Killed one of the 

 former. This species of Totanus flavipes has been observed 

 at Spittal Pond, and indeed about all the shallow pools in 

 this neighbourhood. It is one of the earliest and most 

 common of our migratory birds. 



August 2ist, 1848. — Mr. C. Fozard brought me a specimen 

 of the Spotted Sandpiper this morning, in the full spotted 

 plumage of the adult bird. It measured seven and a half 

 inches in length. He saw no other kind of visitant in his 

 rambles. 



