188 The Ottawa Naturalist. [March 



/. resinicola O.S. The pale orange larvae occur in pitch 

 exudations on hard pine. Previously referred to Diplosis and 

 Cecidomyia. 



I . resinicoloides Wlms. The larvae occur in resinous exuda- 

 tions on the Monterey pine. Described as Cecidomyia. 



I . foliora Rssl. & Hkr. Gall the folded edge of oak leaves 

 similar to' that described for Cecidomyia erubescens by Osten 

 Sacken. Described as Cecidomyia. 



Cecidomyia. 



This term is employed here in a general sense to include 

 galls which can not be satisfactorily referred to any well defined 

 genus, and also adults with inadequate descriptions. 



C. caryae O.S. Probably an inquiline in the typical Caryo- 

 myia caryae O.S. gall on hickory. This species is not identical 

 with our Cliniodiplosis caryae or M ycodiplosis hohtricha, both 

 probably inquilines in Caryomyia galls. 



THE GRAY OR ARKANSAS KING BIRD, 

 TYRANNUS VERTICALIS. 



During a residence of now more than ten years in Pilot 

 Mound, I do not remember seeing Tyr annus veriicalis until 

 May 21st, 1909, when I was visiting a patient just north of 

 Crystal City. On the wire fence by the roadside sat a gray- 

 backed bird whose tail was nearly black but whose belly and 

 especially the lower belly was sulphur yellow, fading to a lighter 

 shade breastwards. Again, on May 21st, 1910, and May 22nd, 

 1911, I have noted the first appearance of this bird. In 1910, 

 however, a pair nested in Pilot Mound, while in 1911, not only 

 did two pairs nest on the roadside trees in town, but I saw 

 specimens in Crystal City and Clearwater. Prof. W. W. Cooke 

 of the U.S.A. Biological Dept., to whom I send annual records 

 of the spring migration of birds, tells me that S.W. Manitoba 

 constitutes the far N.E. limit of the range of T. veriicalis. It is 

 a very charming bird, built on graceful lines and less truculent 

 than the aggressive T. tyrannus, which will bully the robins 

 and humming birds. While we were playing tennis in August 

 at the close of the nesting season, both old and young birds 

 wheeled about the space between our stop-netting and the 

 public school roof. The Boy Scouts will protect these and 

 our other birds from nest thieves. 



H. M. Speechly, 



Pilot Mound, Man. 



