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Mangrove Bay, on the 2nd of August, 1848. I killed ano- 

 ther, a few days afterwards, at Chief Justice Butterfield's 

 pond, but it unfortunately fell into the middle of the 

 swamp, and I could not possihly get it out. 



The Landrail of Europe (Grex pratensis). On the 

 25th of October, 1847, when out shooting in the dusk of 

 the evening, in Pembroke Maish, my good old dog "Flora" 

 pointed, and a weU-known bird took wing, which I most 

 fortunately killed, and it proved tb be a young male land- 

 rail of the year. I sent the specimen to the late Mr. YarreU, 

 and at the sale of his effects, it was purchased by Colonel 

 Drummond, who recognized the skin. The occurrence of 

 this bird iu such an " out-of-ther^ay place" as Bermuda, and 

 so far to the westward of its line of migration, is most won- 

 derful ; and it certaioly gave me more pleasure to find this 

 single bird, than the whole of the other birds, put together. 

 I sent a notice of the occurrence of this bird to the Zoolo- 

 gist, in 1849. 



Cakolina Ceake Gallinule (Ortygometra Oarolinus). 

 These birds regularly visit the Bermudas, arriving about 

 the beginning of September. The first specimen I got was 

 at the Sluice Ponds, on the 3rd of September, 1847 ; it was 

 settling on a branch of a mangrove tree, about four feet 

 from the ground. A few remain throughout the winter. 

 In October, 1849, they arrived in immense numbers. I 

 killed one, January I7th, 1849, at the Sluice Pond ; and 

 Mr. Hurdis kDled one on the 26th April, 1849, at Warwick 

 Pond. I also found a great many of them, in Pembroke 

 Marsh, my dog pointing them like quail They were very 

 good to eat, particularly on their first arrival 



Yellow -breasted Eail (0. noveboraeensis). Of this 



