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Went out with Mr. Fozard for two hours before sunset, 

 and ranged the whole distance from the silk factory to the 

 sluice gates. Saw one Snipe only, two Rice-birds and a 

 Carolina Crake. The latter was shot by Mr. Fozard, and 

 was the only reward of our toil. Heard the loud whistle of 

 the Hudsonian Curlew as it passed over my office this 

 morning. It was seen by Mr. Wedderburn at the time. 



October 28t&, 1848. — Accompanied Mr. Wedderburn and 

 Mr. Fozard in an excursion to Harris' Pond and some other 

 ponds in that vicinity. Found half-a-dozen Snipe only 

 during the day, of which three were killed. Mr. Wedder- 

 burn shot a Pigeon-hawk (Faico columbarius), in returning 

 home through the Governor's Marsh ; he also killed a 

 couple of Snipe very early in the morning. 



October 29th, 1848. — Memorandum. — The distance from 

 the southern extremity of Nova Scotia to St. Thomas' and 

 the neighbouring West Indian Islands is equal to five-and- 

 twenty degrees, or fifteen hundred miles. From the 

 southern coast of New England, United States, to the 

 islands above-mentioned it is about thirteen hundred and 

 eighty miles. This immensity of space is annually traversed 

 by myriads of Golden Plover {Charadrius marmoratus), and 

 some other of the feathered species in their autumnal 

 migration to southern latitudes. A few of these migrants 

 meeting with the Bermudas, at a point nearly equally dis- 

 tant between Nova Scotia and St. Thomas, are induced to 

 alight there, but these are as nothing compared with the 

 immense numbers which pass on in a more eastern or 

 western range of longitude, or which may be observed 

 during the day, or heard during the night, crossing over 



