104 The Ottawa Naturalist [Sept. 



NOTES. 



An unusually early record of the arrival of the 

 Black-throated Green Warbler (Dendroica wrens) at 

 Ottawa. The arrival of this species of wood warbler was noted 

 last spring by Miss V. Lees and Mrs. Brown, of Ottawa East, 

 when they saw and heard one of these birds on the canal bank 

 near Bank Street on the 15th April. Miss Lees saw it first and 

 an hour or two later Mrs. Brown, passing the same way, also 

 saw and heard it near the same spot. 



Blue Jay imitating Red-shouldered Hawk. In the 

 April number of the Naturalist, Mr. L. M. Terrill, of Westmount 

 Que., correctly ascribed the authorship of some Red-shouldered 

 Hawks' notes, which he heard when none of those birds were in 

 evidence, to the Blue Jay. It may be added that this is a very 

 common performance on the part of the Blue Jay. Its very 

 exact imitation of the Red-shoulder's notes may frequentlv be 

 heard, e.g., at Beechwood, Ottawa, where both birds are found. 

 It is proficient in the imitation of the notes of other birds also. 



G. Eifrig, Addison, III. 



Bird Records. The following records which I made in 

 the early part of the present year may be of interest to some 

 readers of The Ottawa Naturalist. 



1911 

 Jan. 5 Yarmouth, N.S.,, fllock of Bluebirds. 



21 Meteghan, N.S., Gold-crowned Kinglet. 

 Feb. 2 do Robin. 



18 Weymouth, N.S., Robin. 



19 do Robin. 



23 do Two Meadowlarks. 



24 do Robin. 



26 do Meadowlark. 



Apl. 13 St. Stephen, N.B., Bluebird. 



14 do Red-winged Blackbird. 



Although only one date for Golden-crowned Kinglet is 

 mentioned above, I afterwards saw T these birds abundantly along 

 the shore of Digby and Yarmouth counties in Nova Sootia, 

 where they were feeding on weed seeds. 



G. E. Sanders. 





