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these feathers myself, and found eight of them belonging to 

 the right side, and nine to the left. In all other respects 

 this bird resembled the common Snipe of America. I 

 presume this to be an accidental deviation from the 

 general rule. 



November 3rd, 1848. — Mr. Wedderburn brought in this 

 morning another specimen of the Yellow- red-poll Wood 

 Warbler {Sylvicoia petechia) of Audubon. It measured five 

 and two-tenth inches in length, and corresponded in every 

 respect with that killed on the 17th of December last. 



Saw a Snipe killed by the same gentleman, with the 

 under plumage pure white. It had sixteen feathers in the 

 tail. 



November 6th, 1848. — Mr. Wedderburn showed me a 

 Snipe, killed by him this evening, which had, strange to 

 say, eighteen feathers in its tail. In all other respects it 

 resembled the common Snipe of America. How is this 

 extraordinary circumstance to be accounted for ? 



November ijth, 1848. — Visited the marshes in the 

 neighbourhood of Hamilton, and the ponds at Spanish 

 Point. The former are in excellent order for Snipes, and 

 yet not one of those birds could I meet with ; indeed, save 

 one solitary Kingfisher, I saw nothing. 



November 23rd, 1848. — Mr. Wedderburn has been out 

 several days without finding a Snipe, or any other autumnal 

 visitant, save one common Blue Heron, which he shot 

 yesterday ; this being the second example he has obtained. 



