NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BERMUDAS. II5 



August 21st. — Mr. Fozard brought in a very fine speci- 

 men of the Red-breasted or Brown Snipe (Macrorhamphus 

 griscus), shot by him in the Marshes between Spanish 

 Point and this town. It measured upwards of ten inches 

 in length. This is the second instance of meeting with 

 this bird. 



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August 2$rd. — Visited the Chief Justice's Ponds, Hungry 

 Bay, and Harry Tucker's Pond. Saw nothing but one To- 

 tanus vociferus. Mr. Orde, who returned the same evening 

 from St. George's, mentioned to me that he observed several 

 Swallows flying about in the vicinity of that town. Have 

 seen no Swallows in this neighbourhood this year. 



August z%th. — Mr. Orde informs me that in passing 

 Paget's Church last evening, he saw six or seven Swallows 

 sitting on the roof-top of that building. Went out this 

 evening and hunted the neighbourhood of Paget's Parish 

 and Hungry Bay, but saw nothing of the Swallow kind, or 

 indeed, of any other migratory bird. 



August 30th. — Mr. Fozard tells me that while walking 

 on the North Shore, near the Wells, yesterday, he saw a 

 flock of Plover come in from the north-west, and pass over 

 these islands in a south-easterly direction. They were at 

 a considerable elevation, and formed a cluster, from whence 

 proceeded two curved lines in the rear. Mr. Fozard esti- 

 mated the number of this flock at three hundred birds. 



September ^rd, 1849. — Mr. Josiah Dickenson, while look- 

 ing at the New Church yesterday, at sunset, in company 



