ILLUSTRATIONS OF FOREIGN OOLOGY. 
is the fullest and most detailed account we have yet seen of the 
manners of any of the species. 
First appearance. Last observed. 
1847, 5th March, on 20th plentiful. 1846, November, a straggler. 
“ I have much pleasure in affording you such information, as I 
can from my notes respecting the Phaethon flamrostns of Bermuda, 
or ‘Long-tail,’ as it is there familiarly named. Of all the feathered 
deuizcns° of these islands, it is the only one which gives any charac- 
ter to the landscape. Man has made sad havoc among the winged 
aborigines, since Captain Smith, in his History of Virginia, published 
in 1629, writes “ Neither hath the aire for her part been wanting 
with due supplies of manie sortes of fowles, as the gray and white 
hearne, the gray and green plover, wild ducks and mallards, coots 
and redshanks, sca-wigions, gray bitterns, cormorants, numbers of 
small birds like sparrows and robins, woodpickars, very many crows, 
the leabourer or egg-bird, and the tropicke bird.” Of all these the 
tronic bird alone remains, save as stragglers or visitants. Irom 
1848, 10th March. 
1849, 12th March. 
1847, 9th October. 
1848, 27th September. 
summer quarters tney ao nut - - ... 
but in small parties, and there are seldom more than bait-* 
