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April z^th. — Met with Captain H. M. Drummond, at 

 Ireland Island to-day, and learned from him that he has 

 obtained a second specimen of the Scarlet Tanager, in 

 male plumage. It was shot in a garden at St. George's, 

 by his own servant, on the same day (18th instant) on 

 which he got the former one. The female was seen in the 

 same garden. 



April 16th. — The Common Gallinule {Gallinula chloro- 

 pus of Audubon), has, at the present time, a brood of 

 young ones, in a small pond, on the south side of the 

 swamp, at the foot of Mrs. Saltan's Hill. Five young 

 birds, about half-grown, were there observed feeding with 

 the parent Gallinule on the 19th instant, and on the 

 following day Mr. Wedderburn saw the old bird and one 

 young one on the same piece of water. 



April 27th. — Yesterday I accompanied Mr. Wedderburn, 

 in his boat, and cruised over the Great Sound to the 

 Somerset shore, and home by the Lighthouse and Burgess' 

 Point, without meeting with a bird of any kind. To-day 

 Mr. Wedderburn walked to Peniston's pond, taking his 

 two boat-boys and a spaniel to assist him in beating the 

 bush, &c, but failed in his endeavours to obtain specimens, 

 having seen nothing except one Carolina Crake. From 

 this, it would appear that all those birds, which so far 

 deviated from their ordinary course, during the vernal 

 flight towards the north, as to make, and touch at, these 

 Islands, have passed on. 



April 29th. — Mr. Wedderburn showed me a specimen of 

 the Purple Gallinule {Gallinula martinica), which was sent 

 to him by a coloured person. It was probably shot early 

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