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rode underneath, was not more than a yard above my head. She 
sat with nearly all her neck and breast outside the nest, which 
was only just large enough to contain the eggs; and I could well 
identify her as of this species. She did not fly off until after 
I had tied up my pony hard by, and had almost touched her with 
my stick. There were three eggs, laid side by side in a row, 
along which, strange to say, the bird had been sitting. The nest 
was some distance from the stem of the tree, and placed loosely 
on the bough; it was a mere platform of small sticks laid one 
across another with a few finer twigs and a little grass as a lining : 
so slightly was it put together, that, on attempting to take it 
from the tree, it fell to pieces.”—-E. N. 
23. Black-eared Cuckoo. Coccyzus seniculus , Gosse, B. of 
Jam. p. 281 (excl. synon.). 
Mr. Sclater informs us that this is identical with Mr. Gosse’s 
specimens from Jamaica; but whether they are truly the same 
as Latham* s seniculus, is at present questionable. 
“ I shot a female of this bird, March 23rd, 1858, at the place 
indicated as a locality for the species last mentioned. I am not 
certain that I ever saw it again. Whether this and che preceding 
are only summer visitors or not, I am unable to say : neither 
bird, prior to my visit, appeared to be known to the inhabitants.” 
—E.N. 
24 [?]-(?) Woodpecker. Ficus -(?). “Woodpecker.” 
A bird answering to the description of a Woodpecker, and so 
called by our informants, seems to be found occasionally; but 
neither of us had the good fortune to meet with one; and the 
accounts were so very vague, as to preclude our giving any 
further indication of it than the present. 
[To be continued.] 
XIV.— Account of a Visit to a Nesting-place of the Frigate-bird 
(Eregata aquila, L.). From a letter of George Cavendish 
Taylor, Esq. 
On the 1st of January, 1858, we went off in a boat with four 
rowers to visit an island some four or five miles from Tigre 
