NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BERMUDAS. IOI 



length. Eight of these birds were seen by Mr. Fozard, who 

 shot two others, which he failed in recovering from the 

 water. 



The weather from the commencement of the present 

 month has been particularly boisterous, the wind blowing 

 hard from east-north-east, and latterly north-west. 



Mr. W. B. Smith showed me a young female specimen of 

 the Pintail Duck {Anas acuta), which was shot at Riddles 

 Bay. It measured twenty-one and a quarter inches in 

 length. Is not the author of the " New York Fauna " 

 wrong when he describes the tail of this bird as consisting 

 of fourteen feathers only ? There were no elongated upper 

 tail coverts to this specimen, and sixteen feathers in the 

 tail itself. 



March 26th. — Learn from a person resident at Port Royal 

 that some " Long-tails " {Phaeton czthereus) were observed 

 " last week," in the vicinity of Burgess' Point. In the 

 neighbourhood of Hamilton not a land or sea bird is to be 

 seen or met with ; native residents excepted. 



The Rev. H. B. Tristram informs me that on Sunday, 

 the 1 8th instant, he observed two Tropic Birds on the 

 shore of Somerset, being the first this season, and that 

 many have been noticed since by others. 



April J th, 1849. — One of the lighthouse keepers, named 

 Smith, tells me that a few days since he observed a bird as 

 large as a Turkey sitting upon a palmetto tree at Riddles 

 Bay. It was black on the upper parts, with a white breast. 

 The bill yellow, about six inches long, and hooked at the 



