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rose with rapidity from one part of the sheltered bottom to 

 another. There was an unusual appearance of wildness 

 and vigour in these birds, which induced me to think they 

 were strangers recently arrived here. I was strengthened 

 in this opinion by observing among them a small flock of 

 seven or eight birds, which were evidently, from their flight 

 of a different kind. These I contrived to get a shot at, 

 while perched in the upper branches of a cedar, and killed 

 one specimen. It proved to be'a Cedar Wax-wing (Bomby- 

 cilia carolinensis of Audubon), in beautiful plumage. 

 Length, six and six-tenths inches. Tail tipped with bright 

 yellow for one quarter of an inch only. Primaries, edged 

 externally with white. No waxen appendages to the 

 secondaries. Crest, very long. Probably this was a young 

 male bird of the present year. Saw nothing else during 

 my walk. 



Met Mr. Wedderburn this evening, who had ranged the 

 country from the sluice gates to Peniston's ponds, and 

 killed one Kildeer Plover, being the only bird met with. 



December l$tA. — Learn from Mr. Robert Kennedy, the 

 Colonial Secretary, that his coloured servant shot a Wild 

 Duck, in the ditch which runs through the marsh at the 

 back of Mr. Kennedy's house, on the 1 2th instant ; that it 

 was a very fine black Duck, with a bright green spot on 

 each wing. This, no doubt, was the Anas obscura, or 

 Dusky Duck, of Audubon, a species which has not come 

 under my observation for the last two winters. 



Mr. Wedderburn tells me that among the mangroves 

 which grow near the sluice gates he put up two Least 



