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or thirty^five miles per hour only, over the eleven hundred 

 and fifty miles of ocean which intervenes between those 

 islands, we shall have no difficulty in accounting for their 

 appearance at Barbadoes on the morning of the 12th of 

 September. Of course, I do not pretend to assert the 

 identity of the two flights, although it must be admitted 

 that the evidence leans strongly to that conclusion. 



Whence these flights of plover proceed, after visiting the 

 West Indian Archipelago, is unknown. There can be little 

 room for doubt, however, that the shores of Venezuela and 

 Guiana, and the interior of the South American continent, 

 will prove to be their destination. 



It is singular that the course by which this plover 

 returns to its northern haunts, should also be unknown at 

 the present day. Some writers affirm that it passes rapidly 

 through the northern parts of the United States, in small 

 flocks, in the spriag of the year ; this, no doubt, is correct 

 with reference to a few, though it stiU leaves the vernal 

 migrations of the millions involved- in mystery. 



Sir Wniiam Jardiue mentions this bird as being found in 

 Australia and Hiudostan. Let us hope that some observant 

 naturalist will favour us with the particulars of its history 

 in those possessions, whence it comes, and whither it goes, 

 for assuredly it must be migTatory in those countries, afe 

 elsewhere. 



KiLDEEE Plovee (Charadrius vodferus). This is the 

 latest of the plover tribe which visits the Bermudas, ap- 

 pearing from the north iu the months of December and 

 January. It is found in small flocks, and is conspicuous, 

 from the beautiful black band across the breast. Its note 

 is peculiarly soft and pleasiag. It is not seen in the spring. 



