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of movement, and how truly does the Prophet Jeremiah 

 exclaim that the " Stork knoweth her appointed times, and 

 the Turtle and the Crane and the Swallow observe the 

 time of their coming." 



April 2$rd. — Mr. G. Trimmingham presented me with 

 a specimen of the Tyrant Flycatcher (Muscicapa tyrannus), 

 which was shot by him this morning a few miles from 

 Hamilton. This is the first of its species I have met with 

 during the present season. 



April 2\th. — In walking round my garden this morning, 

 I observed a bird of unusual appearance move from one 

 cedar tree to another, and went in for my gun, with the aid 

 of which I soon obtained possession of the stranger. It 

 proved to be the Yellow-billed Cuckoo {Coccyzus americanus 

 of Wilson), and, if I mistake not, this is the first instance 

 of its being met with on its vernal flight to the north. 



April 2$tk, Sunday. — Walked through the marshes to 

 the sluice gates. Saw a Green Heron and a large Blue 

 Heron only. Have received information of several Yellow- 

 billed Cuckoos being seen, and of two being shot at St. 

 George's. I have reason to believe a White Heron has 

 also been observed in this neighbourhood. 



April 2Jth — Mr. J. Darrell, son of the Attorney General 

 of this colony, assures me that a Humming Bird made its 

 appearance under the windows of his father's house yester- 

 day morning, where it was busily engaged entering the 

 large white bell-shaped flowers of the stramonium; that 



