258 NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BERMUDAS. 



I have no doubt this statement is correct ; consequently 

 the Yellow-legs {Totanus flavipes) is earlier than usual 

 this season ; the 1st of August being the general period 

 of its arrival in the Bermudas. 



July 2Stk. — I was assured by Mr. John Darrell to-day 

 that on the 5th of July, 1850, he shot seventeen Yellow- 

 legs {Totanus flavipes) at Peniston's ponds. Is quite 

 certain he killed them on that date ! 



July }>\st. — A coloured boy brought for sale, at the 

 office to-day, a living specimen of Totanus flavipes, or 

 Lesser Yellow-shanks, which he told me he had captured 

 by " running it down on the shore at the lane " ; in other 

 words, at the head of Hamilton Water. This is the first- 

 of its species that has come under my observation this 

 season ; and truly does it keep its " appointed time." 

 For some days past we have had strong breezes from the 

 south-west, and to-day it blows a very stiff breeze from the 

 south and south-west. 



September u/.— Was told by the Rev. J. U. Campbell 

 that about noon yesterday he witnessed an extraordinary 

 flight of birds passing over these islands at a considerable 

 elevation. Thinks the flight extended full half a mile in 

 length, the birds flying in single file, like Wild Ducks,. and 

 forming one long line without a leading cluster. My 

 informant could not undertake to say of what description 

 of bird this flight consisted. Weather cloudy and calm, 

 with rain in the afternoon. 



Mr. Hodgson Smith reports a very large flock of Plover 

 at Burgess' Point this morning, and carried from town a 



