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fishers, but no Snipe or other birds, one Ardea herodias 

 excepted. 



November 23rd. — Disturbed a large Wild Uuck from a 

 ditch in White's Marsh this morning. It was of a very 

 dark brown colour, marked with grey on the back. Am 

 under the impression it was a Canvass-back. 



November 2$th. — Ranged the marshes from Minton's to 

 the sluice gates early this morning. Saw nothing of the 

 Canvass-back Duck of yesterday, but fell in with five 

 Snipe, one couple of which I bagged ; also killed a Caro- 

 lina Crake, and a Belted-Kingfisher. 



Mr. Downes informs me that while at St. George's, 

 yesterday, he saw a Golden Plover, which had been shot 

 the day previous, by an officer of the 56th Regiment. 



November 2$tk. — Edwin Jones, master, and part owner 

 of the schooner, " G. 0. Bigelow" when reporting his vessel 

 from England this morning, informed me that about nine 

 or ten days after his departure from Bermuda, in Septem- 

 ter last (with pardoned convicts on board for England), 

 the weather for several days having been light, with an 

 easterly breeze, and the vessel being then between five and 

 six hundred miles east of these Islands, " great multi- 

 tudes of birds," which he took to be Plover, were seen 

 passing over the vessel, in a southerly direction, for two 

 days. These birds he describes as flying in flocks, some 

 of which amounted to many thousands, others were 

 considerably less, diminishing in number to parties of fifty 

 and thirty. He also states that during the whole of one 



