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ceeded in ktlling four couple. They were all of the do- 

 mestic kind, — of a yellow, grey, and black colour ; and, 

 although the herhage was exceedingly scanty, of good size, 

 and excellent condition. 



" When the scanty supply of grass is hurnt up by the heat 

 of summer, I am iacUned to think that these rabbits subsist 

 by barking the under side of such branches of cedar (Juni- 

 perus Bermudiana), as grow within their reach ; at all 

 events, the state of the cedars induced that belief. 



" This island, like its neighbours in the Sound, is entirely 

 without water." 



AYES. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS 



ON TUB 



RESIDENT AND MIGRATORY BIRDS OF THE BERMUDAS. 

 BY UAJOB J. w. WBDDBEBUBK (late 42nd Royal Highlanders). 



Turkey Bttzzabd {Gathartes awra). My friend, Mr. 

 Hurdis, examined a male specimen of this bird, on the 

 29th December, 1853. It was shot by Mr. George Trim- 

 TninghaTTi, in the latter part of November <A that year, at 



