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only saw a flock of Plover pass overhead yesterday, but 

 fell in with a string of five Wild Ducks. 



September i$th. — Heard from two different sources to- 

 day that on Saturday last, the 13th instant, Kingfishers 

 were observed for the first time this autumn. This accords 

 with the period of that bird's return from the north last 

 year. Is not this regularity of movement very wonderful ? 



September \yth. — Mr. Fozard, who was out this morning 

 with his gun, tells me he fell in with a pair of Ring Plover 

 (Cliaradrius semipalmatus"), one of which he killed. Observed 

 many Kingfishers chasing one another about the sluice- 

 gates, and heard and saw several Water Thrushes in the 

 same neighbourhood. He found the marshes much flooded 

 by the late heavy rain, but saw no other birds of any kind 

 — natives, of course, excepted. 



Mr. Wedderburn, of the 42nd Highlanders, in a letter 

 written on board the Cunard steamer, " Canada," on the 

 16th of August last, having made the coast of Newfound- 

 land that morning, and kept close in with the shore all 

 day, writes as follows : — " There have been large flocks of 

 Sandpipers passing on their southward migration all the 

 morning ; I saw them come from the land and fly due 

 south, quite close to the water's edge. It is really time for 

 them to get to a warmer climate; I only wish I was 

 following them, for the cold is terrible. We passed two 

 very large icebergs this morning, and were quite close to 

 one — a most splendid one — which must have been two 

 hundred feet high at the least." 

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