260 NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BERMUDAS. 



September i$th. — Mr. Fozard writes to me from his new 

 place of residence, Somerset, that on the 13th instant he 

 bagged sixteen Yellow-shanks {Totanus fiavipes). Two 

 Solitary Sandpipers, one Golden Plover, and a "real 

 Snipe," the latter however was very poor, and scarcely "fit- 

 ting to eat" 1 — probably a wounded bird of the past season. 



A coloured boy called at the office to-day with two Rice 

 Buntings to enquire what they were. 



September x6tk. — On my way to Somerset yesterday I 

 observed one flock of about a dozen Golden Plover, feed- 

 ing close to the roadside ; and at St. George's Bay, five or 

 six Turnstones got up from the rocky shore. To-day I 

 visited the north shore, and fell in with one small flock of 

 Golden Plover only, about twelve in number, but failed in 

 getting a shot at them. Saw no other birds. 



September \"jth\ — The Rev. J. U. Campbell sent me 

 early this morning a specimen of the Hudsonian Curlew 

 Numenius Hudsonicus of Audubon), the first I have seen 

 or heard of this autumn. It appeared to be a young bird, 

 and measured sixteen inches in length. 



September igth. — Returning from church I saw a large 

 bird, of pointed wing, soaring over White's Marsh. It was 

 dark brown on the upper plumage, and light below. Took 

 it to be an Osprey. 



September 21st. — Mr. Fozard sent me a very beautiful 

 specimen of the Osprey, or American Fish Hawk {Pandion 



1 A Bermudian expression. 



