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Mr. Wedderburn tells me that on the 10th instant he 

 shot two Roseate Terns, from a flight of about twenty of 

 those birds. Saw one of the specimens to-day, which had 

 been set up by Captain Drummond. 



June 2A,th. — Captain Drummond informs me that in the 

 piece of marsh adjoining Mr. Harry Tucker's pond (to the 

 eastward) he put up a Purple Gallinule (Gallinula mar- 

 tinid) yesterday. Captain Drummond had no gun with 

 him at the time. 



July 1st. — The " Peri," a small vessel belonging to these 

 islands, and recently returned from an onion voyage, 

 brought from the Island of Inagua (one of the Bahamas) 

 two young Flamingos. The master, J. T. Yates, tells me 

 that he had about a dozen of these birds on board, all of 

 which died at sea, excepting the two already mentioned. 

 They were the property of passengers, and were captured 

 the day before he sailed by a party who walked into the 

 country for that purpose, and with trousers tucked up 

 above their knees, invaded the lake and islands where they 

 breed. Old and young were met with in abundance. 

 Must endeavour to obtain authentic information of the 

 breeding habits of this curious bird. 



July i\th. — Met with one of the " Peri's '' passengers, an 

 intelligent native named Hollis, who had been present at 

 the Flamingo hunt above mentioned, and questioned him 

 regarding what he saw of the habits, &c, of that bird. He 

 stated that he visited Lake Rosa with some companions 

 at a distance of fifteen miles from the port where the 

 " Peri " lay, and waded to some of the islands which dotted 

 its surface — the water being only knee-deep. On one of 



