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the marsh. The Cuckoo's stomach on being opened was 

 found to be crammed with grasshoppers. A live specimen, 

 lately in my possession, fed eagerly upon the common 

 cockroach. 



October 2$tA. — A Snowy Heron (Ardea candidissima) 

 was shot this morning at the head of Hamilton Water, 

 by Mr. Hinson. It was a bird of the present year. 



Mr. Qrde killed two couple of Snipe and three Carolina 

 Crakes before breakfast this morning. Number of Snipe 

 killed by self, up to this date, during the present autumn, 

 twenty-five. 



October 26th. — Captain Drummond, 42nd Highlanders, 

 writes from St. George's that the Thrush recently shot by 

 him proves, on a careful examination, to be the same as 

 Mr. McLeod's specimen (Turdus olivaceus). He describes 

 the tail as being dark olive brown, each feather tipped 

 with dark brown, and pointed at the end ; he also says 

 there is a broad bar of dingy white running across the 

 inside of the wings. 



Captain Drummond likewise mentions his having shot 

 (on the 25th instant) two beautiful specimens of Alauda 

 alpestris, the Shore or Horned Lark of Audubon, and that 

 Mr. McLeod, in company with him, killed an example of 

 the Bay-winged Bunting (Emberiza graminea of Audubon) 

 — both additions to our fauna. 



Captain Drummond also shot a large species of Fly- 

 catcher — he thinks the Tyrant or King Bird — but unfor- 

 tunately lost it among some arrowroot. Two or three 

 " Tree-creeping Warblers " have been seen between St. 

 George's and the Ferry. They were reported to Captain 



