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halicetus of Audubon), which had evidently been killed 

 this morning. It measured about twenty-one inches in 

 length ; the back and wings of a rich brown, each feather 

 beautifully tipped with white, as was the tail. Lower 

 parts of a pure white, except on the breast, which exhibited 

 a few streaks of brown. Head white, mottled or streaked 

 with the same colour. Am disposed to think from the size, 

 &c, that this was a male bird, and probably the same seen 

 by me on Sunday last. The distance to Somerset, in a 

 straight line, being about seven miles. 



Learn from Mr. Anderson, Civil Engineer at H.M. 

 Dockyard, that he saw a person yesterday with a large 

 Duck in his hand. That he examined the bird, and is 

 satisfied it is the same as that described by Wilson as the 

 Dusky Duck {Anas obscurd). This is the second which 

 has been shot recently in this vicinity, one having been 

 killed a few days ago at Peniston's ponds. 



September 22nd. — The Osprey again made its appear- 

 ance over White's Marsh this morning, and continued soar- 

 ing in circles over it for some time, when it wended its 

 flight to the sluice gates. 



September 2$tk. — Dr. Innes reports having flushed a real 

 Snipe (Scolopax wilsonii), on or about the 20th instant, at 

 Somerset ; he failed in putting it up a second time, from 

 the impracticable nature of the swamp it alighted in. 



September 10th. — A heavy swell has been rolling in upon 

 the south shore of the islands from the morning of the 

 28th instant. The sky to the westward on that and the 



