Nos. 451-452 ] LIST OF BERMUDIAN BIRDS. 



766. Sialia sialis (Linn.). Eastern Bluebird.— A very com- 

 mon bird. Bangs and Bradlee (:oi, p. 255) state tbat the Blue- 

 bird is migratory as well as resident, so that " jiossibly some of " 

 the migrants " remain and breed and thus counteract an\ Iciul 

 ency to vary that the island birds might develop it \vholl\ cut oft 

 from the main body of the species." Reid ('84, p. 1-3) says ot 

 the nests, " I have found them coiumonly in holes in old (|uar 

 ries or roadside cuttings; also in crcviics of walls; in idcks. 

 even when some little distance from the shore : in liok-s \\\ trees ; 

 on the branches of trees ; in stove and water pipes ; in calahaslK ^. 

 boxes, etc., hung up for them in the vcnuulas ot houses, .... 

 and in several other curious situations." 



On July tenth Mr. Owen Bryant found a IMuebird's nest 

 containing three young birds, built in the cap.stan ot an old 

 wreck near Coney Island. On the twenty-sixth of July Mr. 

 John T. Nichols and I found some holes in a bank of sand, 

 part of one of the cliffs nearly due north from the Devil's Hole, 

 Harrington Sound; they were some four or more inches in 

 diameter and a foot and a half to two feet deep, and two of 

 them contained nests of soggy vegetable materials, one of which 

 had in it a couple of bad eggs, probably Bluebirds'. This 

 seemed to us a strange nesting site for the bird which we always 

 associate with the hollow limb of an old apple tree. 



Besides the twenty-one birds listed above, the following were 

 reported to me : 



On July twenty-third Mr. Leon J. Cole saw a Tattler ( 7"<?/^?- 

 nus), probably mclanoleiiais, at St. David's. 



During July a large Hawk was seen by various members of 

 the Bermuda Biological Station. His identification as a Butco 

 was all but complete. 



On August sixteenth Mr. Louis L. Mowbray told me of a 

 Snowy Owl {Nyctea nycted) which had been seen on the after- 

 noon of the previous day, in the Devonshire marsh. Swallows 

 (probably Barn Swallows, Hirundo crythrogastra) were reported 



