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the Bermudas. Span of the foot, four and six-tenths 

 inches. Eyes, large and very dark. 



February 2nd. — Accompanied Messrs. Wedderburn and 

 Orde in a drive round Harrington Sound, visiting all the 

 marshes and ponds en route. Saw one Diver in Trott's 

 pond, and expended a considerable portion of powder and 

 shot in our endeavours to kill him, but without success. 

 Five Kingfishers, one Night Heron, one Great Blue Heron, 

 one Green Heron, and a small Sea Duck, supposed to be 

 the Buffet-headed Duck, were also met with, but none of 

 them were obtained. 



February ^th. — Mr. Wedderburn returned from Trott's 

 pond this evening, with the Grebe which we so vainly 

 endeavoured to shoot on the 2nd instant. It proved to be 

 a young male specimen of Podiceps carolinensis, the 

 Pied-billed Dabchick of Audubon. Length, fourteen 

 inches. Bill crossed with a dark-coloured bar, between 

 the base and the extremity. Chin, white. Lower parts, 

 yellowish white, mottled with indistinct spots of brown. 

 Upper plumage, of the usual dark colour, beautifully 

 glossed with purple. Feet, dusky olive. 



February 6tk. — Received intelligence of a flock of small 

 birds having been seen in the neighbourhood " with red 

 backs and bluish wings." Went out with Mr. Wedderburn 

 and hunted the Cedar Groves without success. From all 

 that I can gather concerning these birds, I have reason to 

 think they will prove to be American Crossbills. 



February Jtk. — Met the Rev. J. N. Campbell, Chaplain of 

 the Dockyard, Ireland Island, who informed me that a day 



