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other parts also. Mr. Hodgson Smith tells me he has kept 

 a sharp look-out with his gun at Riddles Bay, and has seen 

 many flocks pass over the islands to the southward, not 

 one of which has appeared disposed to alight. The 

 weather is now remarkably fine, with a north-easterly 

 breeze, followed by calm and serene starlight nights. 



September igt/t. — Spent an hour in the Governor's 

 Marsh this evening, with the view of bringing in the 

 remaining Snipe seen there on the 13th instant. Was 

 surprised to find three of those birds, one of which was 

 fired at by Mr. Fozard, and a few feathers knocked out. 

 Searched in vain for them after being once flushed. 



September 20th. — Mr. Downes informs me that while 

 bathing in the creek near Mr. Saltus's residence this 

 morning, a Kingfisher made its appearance on the rocks 

 close by. This is the first I have heard of, returning from 

 the north, this season. 



September 22nd. — All last night the wind blew strongly 

 from the south-west, and to-day from west and west-north- 

 west, the sky looking very dark to windward, the scud 

 passing rapidly overhead, and a slight shower occasionally 

 sweeping by to leeward. Mr. Marriott brought in another 

 Sanderling, shot by him this morning on the south shore, 

 and a black boy came to the office with a Green Heron 

 (Ardea virescens) in immature plumage, which he killed 

 with a stone from a stone wall near the wells on the north 

 shore. 



Went out with my gun in the evening, crossed the 

 Governor's Marsh, and searched in vain for Snipe, then 

 ranged the north shore, to Spanish Point and Boss' Cove, 



