iqo2] Saunders-- Bird Notes. 55 



BIRD NOTES. 



The Long-tailed Jaeger in Ontario. On October 2nd, 

 1900, at Rondeau (Lake Erie), Ont., Mr. F. D. Bates saw a pair 

 of strange birds and shot them both. Being- an old hunter, he 

 felt sure they were rare, and sent them to London, where they 

 eventually fell into the hands of Mr. H. Gould and myself. They 

 proved to be young specimens ot the long-tailed jaeger [Stereorarius 

 longicaudus), the habitat of which is given in the A. O. U. list 

 as " northern part of the northern hemisphere, breeding in far 

 northern countries. South in winter to the northern United 

 States." This is, I believe, the first capture ot this bird in On- 

 tario, their usual line of flight being doubtless along the ocean 

 shores. 



The White Pelican at Belleville, Ont. The following 

 particulars of the capture of a specimen of this bird at a ducking 

 ground on the Bay of Quinte, eight miles from Belleville, have 

 been furnished by Mr. P. C. Jones, who shot it. The bird flew 

 over the decoys, thus giving an opportunity for a shot. It weighed 

 20 pounds and measured 8 feet 3 inches from tip to tip of the 

 wings. Through the kindness of Mr. Jones, an excellent photo- 

 graph of the mounted specimen was shown at the February meet- 

 ing of the Ornithological section of the Entomological Society at 

 London, when the above facts were presented. 



The present winter has been notable, in southwestern On- 

 tario, for an influx, not only of pine grosbeaks which are to be 

 found everywhere, but also of evening grosbeaks and snowy owls. 

 The latter have been fairly well distributed, but appear to have 

 been especially numerous not very far north of London ; for 

 instance, there have been many ot these seen at Guelph, one taxi- 

 dermist there having had as many as eleven in his shop at once. 

 In the township of Biddulph, north of London, a taxidermist has 

 had over twenty brought to him, and others have been reported 

 from diff"erent stations, such as five or six at the west end of 

 Rondeau, two at Kirwood, one at Walford, etc. These birds are 

 usually very scarce in this locality. 



