ZOOLOGY. 87 



upper parts, and the white mirror was not confined to the 

 secondaries, but extended to the primaries, the four or five 

 external ones excepted. A broad white band of brilliant 

 white plumage surrounded the base of the bill. They were 

 evidently young birds, and probably aU females. 



Two species of scaup are described ia De Kay's Fauna 

 of New York ; the larger, F. mania, 19 to 19 5 inches in 

 length ; and the lesser, F. minor (F. marila, of Audubon), 

 17 inches in length, the mirror of which is restricted to the 

 secondaries only. 



Is the female of the larger species, which I consider the 

 Bermuda specimens to belong to, so much less than the male ? 



Hooded Meegansbe {Mergus cucullatus). Col. Drummond 

 (late 42nd Highlanders) when stationed at St. George's, shot 

 a merganser on the 23rd of December, 1850, which measured 

 nineteen inches in length, and was marked with white on 

 each wing. I did not see this specimen, though, from the 

 description, there can be no doubt it was the young of the 

 Hooded Merganser. 



HoENED Geebb (Podiceps comutus). On the 1st of Feb- 

 ruary, 1855, Captain Tolcher (56th Eegt.), presented me 

 with a beautiful specimen of this grebe, in spring plumage, 

 which he shot near Spanish Point. It was in company with 

 three or four others at the tijne. 



PiED-BiLl^D DoBCHiCK {Podic&ps Gorolinensis)'. On the 

 18th of November, 1851, I found the perfect skeleton of a 

 grebe of this species, on the margin of Chief Justice Butter- 

 field's pond. 



Double -CJEESTED Coemobant (Phalacrocorax dilophus). 

 In January, 1847, a single cormorant of this species ap- 

 peared in the waters of Bermuda, and became the object of 



