1909] The Ottawa Naturalist. 115 



this year than in others. Of course, when anything like the 

 usual amount of warmth comes, the lateness of arrival stops 

 with most species, some even coming earlier than their usual 

 average time, and several interesting anomalies are thus pro- 

 duced. This year, the Blackpoll Warbler {D. striata) and the 

 Baybreasted Warbler, {D. castanea) as a wave, apparently keep 

 up the late setting in of the first migrants, for the former have 

 so far not been observed by the writer and the latter only in a 

 few stray individuals. 



There was also an unusual abundance of Redpolls (Acanthis 

 linaria) here last spring, a condition reported also from many 

 places in the New England and Middle Atlantic States. They 

 were more common here than other seasons throughout the 

 winter, but in April they appeared in veritable clouds. On 

 April 15th, the writer saw two to three large flocks near the 

 Rifle Range, and on the same day an immense flock covered as 

 it were a large part of Rideauville, individuals being seen on 

 every branch and twig of every tree for quite a distance. And 

 strange to say, these flocks at this time were flying south. On 

 April 27th, Mr. Bedard, the Rifle Range Keeper, saw a flock he 

 estimated at 2,000. And these large flocks were coming and 

 going up to May 6th. 



Ottawa, 26th Mav, 1909. 



A REMARKABLE MIGRATION OF YELLOW-BELLIED 



SAPSUCKERS. 

 By a. B. Klugh, Kingston, Ont. 



On the morning of April 17th, 1909, the city of Kingston, 

 Ontario, was alive with Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers. 



From my study window I saw some twenty of them on the 

 trees at the lodge of the park and on going out to investigate 

 I found from one to four on nearly every tree. As a conserva- 

 tive estimate I placed the number of birds in the park at three 

 hundred. 



In the grounds of Queen's University I found the same 

 conditions prevailing. 



Mr. Edwin Beaupre informed me that the birds were 

 abundant in Princess Street (the main thoroughfare of Kingston) 

 on the telegraph poles and woodwork of the doors and windows 

 of the stores. 



Mr. C. L. Hays of the Queen's University NaturaHst's Club 

 told me that every tree along University Avenue had at least 

 one bird on it and that on one tree he counted seven. 



