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Green-winged Teal (A. CaroUnensis). An occasional 

 autumn visitant; in some years more common than in 

 others. I obtained one or two specimens of it during the 

 time I was quartered in Bermuda. 



Ameeican Widgeon {A. Americana). Mr. Hurdis sends 

 me the following note : — "During a violent revolving gale, 

 which visited the Bermudas, on Sunday, October 22nd, 

 1854, numbers of the duck tribe, including this species, 

 took refage in the creeks and marshes of the Islands. 

 Several American widgeon were shot by different persons, 

 and brought to me for inspection on the following day. 

 On the 11th of Nov., 1854, I kiUed a female specimen in 

 the Pembroke Marshes. It 'is singular that this widgeon 

 was never met with during the previous fourteen years in 

 which I had been resident in those islands." 



SuEP Scotee (Fuligula perspidllata). One of these sea 

 ducks was killed with a stick in the harbour of Hamilton, 

 on the 8th of .January, 1849, by Mr. Eichard DiU, whose 

 cook, unfortunately, plucked it instanter. The head, how- 

 ever, was found by Mr. Hurdis, and proved to be of the 

 above species.* 



Scaup Duck {F. marila). Occasionally met with. ' I shot 

 two female specimens, both in their first year's plumage, 

 on the 8th of January, 1849, at Warwick Ponds ; and this 

 was the only occasion that I ever met with them in 

 Bermuda. 



Golden-eye Duck (F. clangula). A male specimen was 

 shot, by Captain (now Major) Bull, (56th Regiment), on the 

 10th of April, 1854, in Pembroke Marshes. 



* Mr. Hurdis states that another was shot m the Pembroke Marshes, by 

 Mr. Fozard, on the 17th of October. 1854. 



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