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and enquiry must decide, though I cannot help entertain- 

 ing an opinion that it does so, and that it will be found 

 identical with the " Cahow," described by Governor John 

 Smith in his account of these islands, published in 1629. 



The former of these specimens proved a female bird and 

 the latter a male. 



June 2nd, 1849. — Mr. McLeod, of the 42nd Regiment, 

 visited the Black Rock, off Castle Harbour, this day. He 

 tells me he saw four Terns only there, two of which he 

 killed, and failed to recover from the sea. One Tern's 

 {Sterna hirundd) egg was found and brought in. The 

 young Shearwater, seen on the 17th ult, was still on the 

 rock, and grown but little, though partially feathered. The 

 parent birds were not seen. 



June 2\st. — Mr. Orde and McLeod, of the 42nd Regiment 

 visited the Black (or as they call it " Gurnet Head ") Rock 

 last evening, and this morning. Of Terns they saw none 

 and the only bird on the rock appeared to be the young 

 Shearwater, first observed on May 17th, and which they 

 brought away. It is precisely like the two specimens of 

 Puffinus obscurus, lately taken on the same rock, excepting 

 that the under portion of the body was densely covered 

 with long, thick, white down. The upper plumage was 

 uniformly dark in colour, and not mottled. Several speci- 

 mens of Phaeton cethereus were shot by these gentlemen, 

 who reports these birds as very abundant in that part of 

 the islands. The five specimens I examined possessed, 

 one elongated feather only, in the tail, although a second 

 feather appeared in one or two instances to be growing, 

 and had already attained to the length of a few inches. 



