78 NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BERMUDAS. 



which it was killed. At Hungry Bay Mr. Wedderburn 

 shot a fine specimen of the Great Blue Heron {Ardea hero- 

 dias), a young 1 bird, tinged- in the upper plumage with fer- 

 rugineous. Length, three feet eleven inches. Extent, five 

 feet eleven and three-quarter inches. Carpal joint, eighteen 

 and a half inches. Bill, upwards of five inches. Mr. 

 Wedderburn also shot two Ring Plover {Charadrius semi- 

 palmatus) and two Spotted Sandpipers. 



Mr. Triscott killed three Turnstones on the same day. 



Major Tulloch, while crossing the sound in a dead calm 

 late at night, on the 12th instant, heard a great many birds 

 passing over. 



September \\th, 1848. — Ingham, master of the brigantine, 

 " Daphne" — just arrived from Ponce, in the island of Porto 

 Rico — tells me he saw numerous flocks of Plover on the 

 voyage, all of which were flying about due south, and 

 generally in long lines, like wild Geese or Ducks. 



NOTE. — A hurricane passed over Antigua early on the 

 22nd ultimo, and, sweeping over the neighbouring islands 

 of St. Christopher, St. Thomas, &c, turned to the north 

 without touching Porto Rico, and on the 31st dismasted 

 a barque between this and New York, thus traversing a 

 course intermediate between these islands and the coast of 

 America. 



September 22nd, 1848. — Mr. Marriott informs me that he 

 saw a Kingfisher this morning. This is the first that has 

 been observed this autumn. 



