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characteristics, precisely the same as in Mr. McLeod's 

 Thrush. 



March igtk. — Walked over to Tankfield to look for 

 Cedar Waxwings ; met with nothing but one solitary Crow 

 {Corvus americanus), the cawing note of which was quite 

 refreshing. This is the second instance only, of my falling 

 in with this native bird during a ten years' residence in 

 the Bermudas. 



March 21st. — Examined a beautiful living male speci- 

 men of the Carolina long-tailed Dove (Ectopistes caroli- 

 nensis of Audubon). Length, twelve and a half inches. 

 This little Dove was shot at Salt-Kettle, last evening, by 

 Mr. Joseph Harvey, and presented by him to Mr. Somers 

 Tucker, who hopes to be able to keep it alive, although it 

 has a leg and a wing fractured. This is the only specimen 

 of the kind that has come under my observation in these 

 islands ; it is consequently a further acquisition to our fauna. 



Accompanied Mr. Wedderburn to the Devonshire 

 Marsh, to look for some Snipe which he had noticed 

 there while marching past with his regiment, in the early 

 part of the day. Found three of those birds (Scolopax 

 wilsonii), and succeeded in killing one. This had fourteen 

 feathers only in the tail, one of which was considerably 

 shorter than the rest, and all were conspicuously tipped 

 with white. Hunted the Governor's Marsh on our return, 

 in hopes of finding Snipe. In this we were unsuccessful. 

 In the tall cedars growing at the back of Mr. Ewing's 

 (the speaker's) residence, saw two American Robins, and 

 Mr. Wedderburn observed another, making three altogether. 



