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was reported to be an English Goldfinch. Walked out 

 with Mr. Wedderburn in search of it. Found the stranger 

 in the mangrove trees, and succeeded in killing it. It 

 proved to be a beautiful male Rose-breasted Song Gros- 

 beak {Coccoborus ludovicianus) of Audubon, in full and 

 splendid plumage. Length, seven and three-tenths inches. 

 In all other respects it agreed with Wilson's description 

 of this bird. A female specimen, shot in October last, 

 by Captain Drummond, near St. George's, and the speci- 

 men above mentioned, are the only two birds of this 

 species that have been killed here within my experience. 



A coloured man, named Isaac Lightbourne, sent me 

 for inspection, an elegant example of the Purple Gallinule 

 {Gallinula martinica of Audubon). It measured twelve 

 and a half inches in length only, and proved a male bird. 

 Plumage as described by Wilson and Audubon. This rare 

 bird was shot at the head of Pembroke Marsh, and became 

 the property of Mr. Wedderburn. 



April \6th. — A note was placed in my hands this morn- 

 ing by Mr. Wedderburn from Captain Drummond, stating 

 that he shot a Pipiry Flycatcher (Muscicapa dominicensis), 

 on Saint David's Island, yesterday, and that Mr. Orde 

 immediately afterwards killed another, which was un- 

 fortunately lost among the sage bushes. 



Sallied forth, after office, with Mr. Wedderburn, in 

 quest of ornithological rarities, and visited Hungry Bay, 

 &c. Saw nothing, and proceeded thence to Devonshire 

 Church, intending to hunt the margin of Brackish Pond. 

 One Solitary Sandpiper and a Purple Gallinule were 



