NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BERMUDAS. I17 



September 10th. — Hear daily accounts, from persons of 

 respectability, of flocks of Plover passing over these islands 

 in a south or south-easterly direction. At 10 p.m. on the 

 8th, the night being calm, and the moon not up, heard 

 Plover passing over the town of Hamilton. These flocks, 

 I understand, continued passing until midnight. To-day 

 Mr. John Tucker tells me that he heard Plover pass 

 over Riddles Bay last night ; these continued passing for 

 some time. A sharp look-out has been kept for these 

 birds along the north and south shores, upon the neigh- 

 bouring hills, and among the islands in the Sound, but, as 

 yet, not a single flock has been met with, nor a single speci- 

 men brought in. 



September nth. — Mr. Triscott and two officers of the 

 42nd Regiment made a boating excursion, among the 

 islands in the Sound this morning, in search of Plover. A 

 few stragglers only were met with; two of these (C/iara- 

 drius marmoratus) and two Turnstones (Strepsilas interpret) 

 were brought in by the party. 



Visited the pond near Warwick Church, in the evening, 

 and there shot a solitary specimen of the Totanus vociferus), 

 or Great Yellow-shanks Tattler. This bird had been pre- 

 viously wounded in one leg. 



The Master of the brigantine " Lady of the Lake," on 

 reporting his vessel from New York, informed me that on 

 the passage he observed two flocks only of Plover. These 

 were rather large, containing from three to four hundred 

 each, and were flying so directly to the south-east that he 

 concluded they were bound to the Bermudas. Heard no 

 flocks passing during the night. Weather fair during the 

 voyage. 



