NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BERMUDAS. I4I 



pale clay, approaching to flesh colour. Plumage, similar 

 to that of the young male, described by Audubon. 



November 2i,rd. — All yesterday and to-day the wind has 

 blown a strong breeze from the north. Went out at three 

 p.m., and spent an hour and a half hunting the Governor's 

 and White's Marshes for Snipe. Found four only, all of 

 which I killed, without missing a shot. 



November 2^th. — A boy brought me a live Bittern, which 

 he had knocked down with a stone in the Governor's Marsh. 

 One wing was broken. 



December tfk. — Mr. McLeod brought me a specimen shot 

 in the Governor's Marsh last evening. Length, five and nine- 

 tenths inches. Bill, short and stout, without any appearance 

 of being notched near the extremity. Upper mandible, 

 black ; the lower, light horn colour. Gape, yellow. Eye, 

 apparently black. Legs and feet, pale clay colour. Tarsi, 

 much compressed. Hind toe, large, the nail long and much 

 curved. Third quill feather, longest ; second and fourth, 

 equal. Tail, long, somewhat rounded, and extending one- 

 sixth beyond the closed wings. Crown, streaked with black 

 and bright bay upon an ash coloured ground. Cheeks, nape, 

 and sides of the neck, and throat of the same bluish ash, 

 a dark streak extending from the eye to the neck, and two 

 other dark lines from each corner of the mouth. Chin and 

 belly, yellowish white ; vent and sides, pale reddish brown, 

 streaked, and spotted with dark brown, the spots being 

 thickest on the undertail coverts. General colour of the 

 upper parts, reddish brown, boldly marked with streaks and 

 spots of a very dark brown. Primaries, light brown, the 

 first conspicuously edged with white on the outer margin, 



