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neck, breast, lower parts, flanks and under tail coverts, pure 

 white. Around the base of the bill the plumage was brown 

 or dark slate ; a dark brown line extended from the front 

 of the eye to half an inch beyond, over the auriculars, 

 where it was joined by a band of the same colour, which 

 passed over the back portion of the head. From the 

 centre of this band a narrow streak of grey ran down the 

 back of the neck, widening as it approached the upper 

 parts, which were of a beautiful bluish-grey colour with 

 darker streaks down the centre of each feather. Rump 

 somewhat lighter in colour, the long feathers on each flank 

 marked with long streaks of grey. Wings and tail as 

 described by Wilson, minus the " brownish yellow." Legs 

 and feet, pale lead colour, the webs and part of the lobed 

 membranes yellow ; an ash-coloured point extended from 

 the back over the sides of the breast. This is the third 

 instance of this bird being met with in the Bermudas, two 

 specimens having been obtained in March, 1848. Failed 

 in ascertaining the sex, though I have no doubt, from its 

 plumage, that it was a male bird. The stomach contained 

 numerous fragments of dark-coloured shell, similar to that 

 of small mussels. 



This bird was not injured in any way. 



Flushed a Snipe (Scolopax wilsonii) on the east margin 

 of Brackish Pond Marsh. Was informed by a boy, who 

 lived close by, that it had haunted the same locality for 

 many weeks. 



March gth. — Mr. C. Fozard tells me he met Smith 

 (tailor) yesterday, returning home with his gun, and a 

 very fine Golden Plover (Ckaradrius marmoratus) which 

 he had killed on the North Shore. Mr. Fozard describes 



