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I received a message from a coloured boy (Adolphus 

 Wellington), informing me that last evening he saw " a 

 very large bird with the head and tail white," and my own 

 son, John, tells me he saw the same bird pass over White's 

 Marsh this morning. Old Jem Stow, a coloured man, 

 employed last week in mending the roads near the Spanish 

 Point Marshes, tells me he saw a very large bird answering 

 this description, sitting by the side of the main ditch in Mr. 

 Saltus' Marsh. This evening the bird has again been seen 

 near my own residence, and I have little doubt the 

 stranger will prove to be the White-headed Sea Eagle 

 (Haliatus lencocephalus of Audubon), a bird hitherto un- 

 known in these Islands. 



March nth. — Walked to the sluice gates and the Bays 

 beyond in search of the White-headed Eagle, and thence 

 to Minton's, laying wait in the thick bushy part of the 

 Governor's Marsh, in hopes of intercepting the stranger on 

 his way to roost. Remained in concealment until twilight 

 set in, when I returned home without seeing the object of 

 my search. During my absence the Eagle had been 

 observed dashing into the main ditch of White's Marsh 

 (within sight of my own windows) after Golden Carp. A 

 little coloured boy, who lives on the margin of the Marsh 

 close by, described the bird as brown-bodied, with white 

 head, neck, and tail, and larger than a Turkey. 



April gth. — The " Eagle " again seen in this immediate 

 neighbourhood, at an early hour this morning, by two 

 different individuals. 



April 10th. — Captain Bull, 56th Regiment, sent me this 

 evening a remarkably fine male specimen of the Golden-eye 



