Under date of May 10th, a letter from William Smith, 
Santarem, states that he has been very ill. 
(0 . On May 19th, during a severe storm with southwest- 
tfatW***- erly gales, Decatur Morgan, of New Haven, Conn., 
captured a £> Chucks-will’s Widow, that had taken 
refuge in a carpenter’s shop. It lived a few days, and 
L.n was presented to the Peabody Museum of Yale College. 
^ A. H. Verrill. 
