22 The Ottawa Naturalist. [April 



"Fairly common," which it probably is in suitable locations. 



Whooping Crane. Stated in the Auk to be common, but 

 omitted from the list in The Ottawa Naturalist. This is 

 doubtless exceedingly rare as Mr. Preble in his "Birds of Atha- 

 basca-McKenzie District," reports that "it has now become 

 .almost extinct in the north." 



Lincoln's Sparrow. This bird is not mentioned in either 

 list. Mr. Preble calls it "The common song sparrow of the 

 region," referring to a district not very far from Mr. Stansell's 

 location, and it is certainly a common breeder in the Red Deer 

 district and becomes less so farther south, the inference from 

 which is, that it would be more common in the north. 



It is unfortunate that so manv errors should have crept into 

 such an interesting paper, and it is to be hoped that Mr. Stansell 

 will have an opportunity of revising this work in the near future. 



W. E. Saunders, London, Ont. 



The Parasitic Jaeger near Ottawa. In the first part of 

 September of last year (1909), Mr. George Smith brought me a 

 bird with the remark that he had a " Vv'eb-footed hawk." The 

 bird had been shot on September 4th on the Ottawa River, near 

 the mouth of the Lievre. Although the bird did not turn out to 

 be the astounding monstrosity the captor had pronounced it, 

 it is, however, a remarkable capture for the Ottawa district, it 

 being nothing less than a Parasitic Jaeger, Stercorarius parasiticus , 

 a new record for the vicinity. It is a bird of the year, that is, 

 in the brown plumage, in which the young gulls and their allies 

 are often so puzzling. I have identified it beyond doubt by com- 

 paring the skin with material in the Field Museum, Chicago, 

 kindly placed at my disposal by Mr. C. B. Cory and Mr. Wilfrid 

 H. Osgood. 



It mav also be worth mentioning that v/e have both the 

 species and the subspecies of the Palm W^arbler, Dendroica 

 palmarum. On comparing the skins in my collection with those 

 of the Field Museum, I find that the species D. palmarum is 

 here at least as a migrant, one of my specimens being taken on 

 May 10th, and one probably belonging here taken on Sept. 20th. 

 The form breeding in the district, however, that is at the Mer 

 Bleue only, so far as I am aware, is undoubtedly the subspecies, 

 the Yellow Palm Warbler, Dendroica palm.arum hypochrysea. 



G. ElFRIO. 



