NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BERMUDAS. 22Q 



October 2nd. — Cloudy, all day, and threatening rain. 

 Hunted White's Marsh, and from thence to the sluice 

 gates, without meeting with a bird of any description. At 

 night raining fast 



October \th. — Again reconnoitred the neighbouring 

 marshes with dog and gun, without the slightest trace of 

 Snipe or Water Crake. Saw a Wild Duck near the sluice 

 gates, which escaped in the thick mangroves with the loss 

 of a few feathers only ; cannot say of what species. Two 

 Pectoral Sandpipers also observed but not fired at. 



October nth. — Yesterday the weather was dark and 

 threatening, the wind blowing stiffly from the east. At 

 night heavy squalls of wind and rain. To-day it has con- 

 tinued half a gale of wind from the south-east, the sky 

 being very dark and cloudy, with an occasional fall of 

 rain. Hunted the Pembroke Marshes in the evening. 

 Shot "the Snipe" that has frequented the Governor's 

 Marsh from the 27th of September, thus making a clean 

 sweep of all that have been seen in this neighbourhood. 

 Killed a Carolina Crake, and lost it among the thick sedge. 

 This is the first of its kind I have seen this autumn. Saw 

 nothing else, excepting a Night Hawk, which I watched 

 for some time as it dodged about in pursuit of its prey 

 close to me. 



The Kingfishers, which arrived in September, appear 

 to have passed on ; at least, I have not seen one about the 

 sluice gates — a favourite haunt — though I have been there 

 several times lately. 



October i$tk. — Heard the shrill whistling note of the 

 Totanus flavipes to-day as it passed over the town. 



