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plumage, I experienced some difficulty in identifying it. 

 Audubon and Wilson are seldom sufficiently explicit in the 

 descriptions of female and immature plumage, but with the 

 aid of De Kay's New York Fauna, I was enabled to ascer- 

 tain the species. This specimen was remarkable for having 

 the eyelids of a bright yellow colour, and the eyes sur- 

 rounded by a large white patch ; the former characteristic 

 is not mentioned by any author that I am acquainted with. 



Blue-winged Teal (A. discors). This beautiful species 

 of the duck genus is decidedly migratory, and not unfre- 

 quently visits the Bermudas on its southern flight. About 

 the 20.th of September it is first met with, and continues to 

 be seen at different periods until the 24th of December. 

 In the month of October, however, they are most numerous, 

 particularly when a storm is raging, or has passed between 

 those islands and the American coast. On its vernal mi- 

 gration to the north it is very rarely seen, and then only at 

 the end of March, or beginning of April. 



Nine couple of these teal were shot in the Pembroke 

 marshes, after the gale of the 22nd of October, 1854, and 

 many more at St. David's Island, where a native sportsman 

 is said to have killed sixteen couple of them during the gale. 



SuEF Scotee {Fuligula perspicillata). Another specimen 

 of this bird was shot in the»Pembroke Marshes, by Mr. 

 Fozard, oh the 7th of October, 1854. 



Scaup Duck (F. marila). A scaup precisely similar to 

 those shot by Major Wedderbum, was killed by Mr. C. C. 

 Abbott (20th Eegt.), on the 19th of December, 1846. All 

 these birds measured from sixteen to sixteen and a quarter 

 inches in length. The delicate pencilling of the second 

 plumage was beginning to spread in the rich brown of the 



