56 ■ THE NATURALIST IN BERMUDA. 



Canada Goose (Anser Canadensis.) 



American Swan (Cygnus Americanus) Shot in White's 

 Marsh ; the witnesses still living. 



Goosander {Mergus merganser). 



Black-headed Gull {Larus atricilla). Seen by myself 

 at Ireland Island. I was fishing from the shore, near Mr. 

 Triscott's house, and it flew close past me. 



FURTHER NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS 



RESIDENT AND MIGRATORY BIRDS OF THE BERMUDAS. 



By J. L. HuBDis, Esq., late Controller of Customs and Navigation 

 Laws in those Islands. 



White-headed Eagle {Haliaetus leucocephalus). Seen by 

 myself and several other persons. 



Peebgkine Falcon (Falco peregrinus). The falcon here 

 mentioned (see Major Wedderburn's note, p. 25), was in my 

 possession to the close of November, 1850. A few days 

 previously, it made a desperate attack upon a domesticated 

 female gadwaU, and was so roughly beaten off with sticks 

 and stones, as to cause its death. At this time it was 

 gradually changing its plnmage, from brown, to a light 

 slaty hue. 



A falcon of this species alighted in the dockyard, at 



