132 NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BERMUDAS. 



Saw Captain H. M. Drummond, 42nd Highlanders, and 

 learn from him that on Tuesday, the 9th instant, he left his 

 quarters, at St. George's, in his boat and visited the coast 

 along St. David's Island. Here he found the Yellow-billed 

 Cuckoo in thousands — "absolutely in thousands" — every 

 cedar tree along the shore having five or six of these birds" 

 upon the upper branches. This extraordinary visitation 

 extended from Cooper's Island, as far north as St. 

 Catherine's Fort, but no further in that direction. On the 

 following day most of these birds departed, leaving, how- 

 ever, many stragglers, which daily became less numerous. 

 All the specimens examined by Captain Drummond were 

 females (?). 



The Pine Warbler {Sylvicola pinus) was also observed in 

 considerable numbers ; also several specimens of the Wood 

 Thrush {Turdus mustelinus), of which examples were 

 obtained. Captain Drummond also shot on that day a 

 beautiful female specimen of the Rose-breasted Grosbeak 

 (Coccoborus ludovicianus), a new bird for our list ; as indeed 

 is the Wood Thrush before mentioned. 



On the day following Captain Drummond shot a speci- 

 men of the Black-and-White Creeping Warbler (Mniotilta 

 varia of Audubon), being a further addition to the ornith- 

 ology of these islands. A Flycatcher, name unknown, was 

 also shot by Captain Drummond on the 9th instant. A 

 similar specimen was obtained at Somerset, by Mr. 

 McLeod, of the 42nd, who has promised to let me examine 

 it. This latter gentleman tells me he has also shot a Wood 

 Thrush, and a Hawk very like the British Merlin, also a 

 Grebe {Podiceps carolinensis). 



Mr. Marriott reports that at eight this morning he 

 observed a White Heron flying about the neighbourhood 

 of the Chief Justice's ponds, from which he thinks it had 



