36 NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BERMUDAS. 



)rummond as beautifully striped black and white, and 

 bout the size of the " Chick of the Village "— " running 

 ip and down trees." 



Walked out with my gun, and killed a specimen of 

 inas carolinensis, the American Green-winged Teal of 

 Vudubon. Length, fourteen inches ; extent, twenty-one 

 ind a half inches ; a little white on the fore part of the 

 ieck. Speculum, of bright black and green, broadly 

 >arred above with white ; the white feathers deeply tinged 

 vith chestnut colour; abdomen and lower tail coverts, 

 hickly spotted with brown, the spots increasing in size 

 ind depth of colour towards the tail. It was alone when 

 tilled. 



October 27th. — Up to the present date I have continued 

 :o receive information of occasional flocks of birds being 

 leard at night whistling their way over these islands to 

 :he south. Whether these flocks consisted of Plover, 

 Curlew, or what other description of bird, at this late 

 season, I am unable to state. As the Plover is early in 

 ts movements, I am disposed to think these late flocks 

 belong to some other genus. 



October 2gtk. — Nine or ten couple of Snipe were killed 

 in the Governor's Marsh by different individuals during the 

 past week. To-day, I shot one there, and although I 

 hunted the valley as far down as the sluice gates, I saw no 

 other. Not a single Carolina Crake was met with, and of 

 Sandpipers only two — a Solitary and a Pectoral. 



October 31 J/. — Mr. Orde sailed to Somerset Bridge, and 

 returned with one Tringa pusilla, a solitary bird. 



