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on Saturday evening, he disturbed a White Heron of large 

 size, and a Blue Heron {Ardea herodias) still larger, in the 

 Chief Justice's Pond — that he saw them in the same place 

 yesterday, but, it being Sunday, they were not molested. 

 Went out this evening in the hope of falling in with these 

 birds, and actually got a long shot at a large White or 

 Greyish Heron, among the mangroves at Hungry Bay. 

 Two others had been seen not long before by a man work- 

 ing close to Mr. Harry Tucker's Pond. He described 

 them as perfectly white, and sitting on the trees near the 

 pond. Saw several Purple Martins, and White-bellied 

 Swallows, also a few Spinetails, or Swifts, two Kingfishers, 

 one Carolina Crake, and a Mosquito, or Night Hawk, 

 during my walk. 



Mr. Hodgson Smith tells me he saw a "White Heron " at 

 Riddles Bay, and killed twenty-one Golden Plover during 

 the blow on the morning of the 22nd. 



September 2$th. — Saw three specimens of the Turnstone 

 (Strepsilas interpret), shot by Mr. Orde this morning. This 

 bird is now rather common among the islands of the Sound. 

 Visited Hungry Bay again this evening, saw two Green 

 Herons, a Spotted Sandpiper, some White-bellied Swallows, 

 a few Night Hawks, a small bird which I took to be a 

 species of Bunting or Reed Sparrow. This I shot, but it 

 fell into a dense bed of sedge, so thickly peopled with ants 

 that I was fairly baffled in my attempts to find it. Upper 

 plumage brown, under parts yellow, dotted over with dark 

 spots. Could neither see or hear of the white strangers 

 of yesterday. 



September 26th. — Captain Drummond, of the 2nd Bat- 

 talion 42nd Highlanders, stationed at St. George's, tells me 



