1910] The Ottawa Naturalist. 43 



throated Sparrow, 2; Myrtle Warbler, 4; Long-billed Marsh 

 Wren, 1; Olive-backed Thrush, 1. 



The stomachs of four specimens examined contained pellets 

 of feathers and bird bones. Numerous pellets picked up on the 

 beach were also examined and found to consist of feathers and 

 bird bones. 



Following are the dates on which the owls were seen: 

 September 28th, 6 seen; October 2nd, 9 seen; October 3rd, 20 

 seen; October 6th, 2 seen; October 16th, 3 seen; October 24th, 

 4 seen; October 25th, 1 seen. J. A. Munro, Toronto. 



Phalaropes in Western Ontario. These birds are suf- 

 ficiently rare to make almost every occurrence worth recording. 

 Mv collection contains only three skins from this part of the 

 country, and it happens that these three are each of different 

 species. 



My Wilson's is the old one recorded in Macoun's catalogue, 

 and I had no chance to add other Ontario specimens until the 

 fall of 1906 when a friend at Rondeau sent me on October 10th 

 a Northern Phalarope. This was followed on the 20th by a Red 

 Phalarope, both in the juvenal plumage. This was a first record 

 of either species for that district, although I have no doubt of 

 their being there with as much regularity as can be expected 

 from such stragglers from the north and west. 



The Red Phalarope is a common breeder among the Arctic 

 Islands of Northern Canada, but its migrations do not bring it 

 this way, but take it out to sea. 



W. E. Saunders, London, Ont. 



Brunnich Murre, Uria lomvia. One male bird was found 

 in a dying condition in the snow, in the early part of December, 

 1908, near the village of Heaspeler, New Ontario, which is near 

 the upper end of Lake Temiskaming, and sent by the one who 

 found it, Mr. Levi Smith, to the undersigned to be mounted. 

 It was a fine specimen ; the stomach was quite empty. The bird 

 had the appearance of having died from starvation. 



On December 21st, 1894, I shot a Brunnich's Murre on the 

 river at my place three miles below Port Sydney. The river is 

 known as the north-east branch of the Muskoka River. It had 

 been frozen over, but owing to a few mild days it had opened up 

 down the centre, leaving a strip of ice along the shore about 

 thirty feet wide. The Murre was sitting on the outer edge of 

 this strip of ice when I shot it. On skinning it I found it to be 

 in a very emaciated condition. This was the first Brunnich's 

 Murre that I ever saw or heard of in these parts. 



Alfred Kay, Port Svdnev, Ont. 



