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veering from south-west to north-west and north. A 

 " large Hawk " was seen in the vicinity of our residence 

 yesterday, and to-day a " Wild Duck " was reported in 

 the adjoining marsh. Went down with my gun, and fell 

 in with Mr. Harford, of the 56th, who had just killed a 

 Blue-winged Teal, and I saw him kill a second soon after- 

 wards. This gentleman showed me a specimen of the 

 Least Bittern {Ardea exilis), which he had shot near the 

 sluice gates. 



Hunted the neighbouring marshes in his company, but 

 found nothing more. He told me he had flushed two or 

 three couples of Snipe in White's Marsh and its immediate 

 neighbourhood. 



November 2%th. — Observed a Woodpecker in the cedar 

 trees of my own grounds, and watched it for some time ; 

 have no doubt it was the Yellow-bellied species (Picus 

 varius). 



December 2$tk. — During divine service this morning I 

 happened to look out of the church window adjoining our 

 pew, and observed an Osprey (Pandion haliatus) soaring 

 in the blue vault of heaven over the Governor's Marsh. 

 After watching its movements for some time, it dis- 

 appeared in an easterly direction, over an intervening 

 grove of cedar trees. 



1853. 



January 22nd. — Mr. P. C. Smith, of Riddles Bay, brought 



me a fine specimen of the Kittiwake Gull (Lams tridacty- 



lus), the tail feathers of which were broadly tipped with 



black. This is the first of the Gull species I have seen 



