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Of birds we remarked: the Aquila leucocephala, Astur, Corvus Corone and Stelleri, and some varieties of the species Turdus, Sylvia, Troglodytes, Parus, Alcedo, Picus, Ardea, Hæmatopus, Scolopax, Charadrius, Anas, and Colymbus. Trochilus rufus is not only often found here, but also under sixty degrees of latitude. A small shoal of Procellaria furcata was once driven into the Bay by stormy weather.
Dominy's earliest success, actually the very first of garden hybrids to flower in 1856 was Calanthe Dominii, offspring of C. Masuca × C. furcata; be it here remarked that the name of the mother, or seed parent, always stands first. Another interest attaches to C. Dominii.
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