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THE NATURALIST IN BERMUDA. 



ingenious trap, is more clearly shown in the accompanying 

 woodcut. 



"Whether the "red bird" does, or does not migrate to the 

 Bermudas, is a question difficult to decide, it being im- 

 possible to distinguish newly arrived strangers from the 

 native birds ; and yet, when we consider for a moment that 

 the entire group of islands is of comparatively recent date, 

 resting upon an unknown basis, and that they consist of 

 broken shell, fragments of coral, and small sea shells, which 

 have been washed up from the ocean and moved by the 

 force of the wind, or some other power, into their present 

 forms ; are we not justified in concluding that the forms of 

 animal life existing upon a spot which has thus risen from the 

 deep, found their way in the first instance, from the coast of 

 AmBrica? If such were the case in a remote, period, extend- 

 ing beyond the reach of history, there is every reason to 

 suppose that similar movements occur at the present day. 



Summer. Eed Bird {Pyranga cestiva). I was present with 

 Major Wedderburn when he obtained his male specimen, 



