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with water and food. During the night the poor bird was 

 attacked by ants, and early this morning it died. 



It measured eighteen inches in length and thirty and a 

 half inches from wing to wing. Bill, entirely black, two 

 inches and six-tenths from the forehead to the nail, and 

 one inch and a tenth deep at the base. Irides, dull red. 

 Legs and feet, ash. Webs, dusky. Tail, of fourteen short 

 feathers. Cheeks and throat, lightish brown, marked with 

 small streaks of a darker colour. Upper portion of the 

 head and neck, dark brown. Back and wings, dusky 

 brown, the former powdered with minute white spots, giv- 

 ing it a grey appearance. Outer primaries, dusky brown, 

 gradually verging into slate, which continues across the 

 entire wing. Both primaries and secondaries more or less 

 dusky at the extremities, the latter being tipped with a 

 white edge. Under parts, light brown, darkest about the 

 neck and tail coverts. Axillaries and under wing coverts 

 chiefly white; the remainder grey. Legs placed con- 

 siderably backward, or near the tail. Toes nearly three 

 inches long. There can be no doubt of this being a 

 Canvass-back Duck (Fuligula valisneriand), of the present 

 year, in immature growth and plumage. The form of its 

 bill is precisely the same as that figured by Wilson in his 

 plate of the Canvass-back. I have been very careful not 

 to confound the present specimen with the Red Head, or 

 Fuligula ferina, of other authors. This is an addition to 

 the birds of these islands. It proved to be a female. 



November 2.nd. — Shot two Snipe in the neighbouring 

 marshes. Saw one Moor Hen, one Carolina Crake, and 

 one Kingfisher. 



November <yth. — Shot one Snipe to-day. Beautiful 

 moonlight night, with very heavy dew. Placed my 



