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Bermudas. It contained, among others, the following 

 specimens : — 



Two Pigeon Hawks. 

 . Two Snow Buntings. 



One American Ring Plover. 



One Pectoral Sandpiper. 



One Solitary Sandpiper. 



One Sanderling. 



Three Yellow-Crowned Wood Warblers. 



One Least Bittern. 



Two Kittiwake Gulls in immature plumage. 



The three Yellow-Crowned Wood Warblers were shot at 

 Somerset, from a flock of those birds, numbering upwards 

 of a hundred. The Least Bittern was captured alive at 

 St. David's Head, as described on April 27th. 



May igtA. — Mr. Fozard, who resides at Somerset, tells 

 me that that part of the island was visited in the latter 

 portion of last month with considerable numbers of the 

 Night Hawk {Chordeiles virginianus). 



July 24/A. — Heard simultaneously from Warwick pond 

 and Spanish Point that " Sandpipers had arrived." I 

 have no doubt that these are the Spotted Sandpiper, 

 the earliest of our northern visitors, which invariably make 

 their appearance at this season. 



July 26th. — Mr. John Darrell tells me that he visited 

 Peniston's ponds at a very early hour yesterday morning, 

 and killed " seven couple of the Yellow-legged Sandpiper " 

 {Totanus flavifes). Saw about one hundred of these birds 

 there ; also a few Spotted Sandpipers. 



