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them like Field Sparrows, though he does not know their 

 names. 



Walked to Hungry Bay yesterday. Saw one Purple 

 Heron, one Green ditto, and one Carolina Crake. Of the 

 latter I have observed three or four lately. Night Hawks 

 few. 



May nth. — Mr. Falconer, the schoolmaster, called on 

 me to-day with a fine specimen of the White-winged 

 Crossbill {Loxia leucopterd), which had been shot by one 

 of his pupils. It was a male bird, six and a half inches 

 in length, of a beautiful carmine, mottled with dusky, or 

 very dark brown, on the upper and lower parts, mixed 

 with a few touches of yellow about the rump. Wings and 

 tail as described by Wilson. I have seldom skinned a 

 fatter bird than this proved to be. 



I understood the same boy has a grey bird, of the 

 same species, now in his possession, alive ! Probably a 

 female Loxia leucoptera. 



This is a further addition to the ornithology of these 

 islands. 



May i$th. — Mr. George Trimmingham presented me 

 to-day with the " White Heron," which for the last three 

 weeks has frequented Hungry Bay. It measured twenty- 

 one inches in length. Bill, blue from the centre to the 

 base ; outer extremities, black. Irides, bright yellow. 

 Membrane surrounding the eye, and extending to the 

 bill, light blue. Legs and feet, light olive; dusky on the 

 anterior side. Middle claw, pectinated on the inner side. 

 Feathers of the upper portion of the head, of a light grey 

 colour ; the three elongated plumes extending about two 

 inches beyond the crest. Neck, very light grey. Back, 



