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nut colour. Fore part of the neck dotted with small 

 spots of purple. Two middle tail feathers pointed, and 

 half an inch longer than the rest. In other respects it 

 agreed with Wilson. This specimen was evidently a 

 young male of the present year, and its companion of 

 lesser size, but similar plumage (the chestnut colour ex- 

 cepted), a female of the same species. 



Saw a coloured boy with a couple of Wild Ducks in 

 his hand, and detained him at my office while I examined 

 them. One of these proved to be a fine male Pintail 

 Duck (Anas acuta), in its first, or immature, plumage. 

 Length, just over twenty-three inches. Extent, thirty- 

 six inches. The other was an American Widgeon, 

 probably a female, eighteen and a half inches in length, 

 white below, with a little chestnut colour on the sides 

 (compared with the male specimen before described), and, 

 like the others, with no speculum on the wings. The boy 

 said these birds were killed by Mr. Napier, of the Com- 

 missariat Department. 



Mr. Phillips, of the 56th, killed two couples of Blue- 

 winged Teal, a female Widgeon, and a couple of Snipe 

 before breakfast this morning ; and a couple of Widgeon 

 later in the day. 



Mr. John Darrell presented me with a beautiful dead 

 specimen of the Sooty Tern (Sterna fuliginosa), which he 

 found, in a state of exhaustion, lying on the ground, 

 when shooting in the vicinity of Devonshire Church. It 

 measured in length eighteen and three-tenths inches, and 

 in extent thirty-four inches, and was in beautiful adult 

 plumage. Mr. Darrell tells me he killed two and a half 

 couple of Blue-winged Teal, three Snipe (Scolopax wil- 

 sonii), and two Yellow-legged Sandpipers in the same 

 neighbourhood. 



