NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BERMUDAS. igi 



and that " Nat Keel " (now about sixty years of age) has 

 always been considered a person of this description. 



August 20th. — Mr. Orde returned from a visit to Trott's 

 and Peniston's ponds this afternoon, with two fine speci- 

 mens of Totanus vociferus, and two Pectoral Sandpipers 

 (Tringa pectoralis). He had also succeeded in obtaining 

 a very fine Solitary Sandpiper, some Semipalmated Sand- 

 pipers, and the Little Sandpiper (Tringa pusilld). Mr. 

 Orde reports these Sandpipers to be in considerable 

 numbers at Peniston's pond. Totanus Jlavipes was not 

 met with. All the specimens obtained were excessively 

 fat. 



August 2$rd. — Mr. Orde came in from a cruise among 

 the islands in the Sound to-day with one Spotted Sand- 

 piper and one Blue Heron (Ardea herodias). The latter 

 measured three feet seven inches in length, and appeared 

 to be a young bird of the present year; it was very 

 plump in condition. No other birds were observed by 

 that gentleman. 



September loth. — That flocks of birds have been heard 

 passing over these islands within the past week, particularly 

 during the night, and that some flocks have been seen so 

 passing in the daytime, I learn from the testimony of 

 persons of the highest respectability in the colony (if this 

 possession can be so called). 



Mr. Orde, of the 42nd, tells ine he has killed two Turn- 

 stones recently, and that at Shelly Bay he saw and shot at 

 a Sanderling of very white plumage. 



September 12 th. — Mr. Downes reports having seen a 

 Night Hawk last evening at sunset in the street fronting 



