1902] HoBSON White-Eyed Virio. 163 



it. Its nose was long^ making a slim head instead of a round 

 head like a lamb's and its ears were lung-. Its body was covered 

 with hair, just straight deer hair. We did not notice any spots 

 on it and it looked dark, probably on account of being wet. Its 

 fett and legs were like deer's not sheep's. You know a sheep's 

 dew-claws are closer down to its hoofs and we noticed that 

 difference particularly. The neck was long and slim. What I 

 thought it resembled most was a tiny horse. She must have gone 

 a sheep's full time, or the hair and hoofs would not have been 

 so well developed, but it was certaintly a very small lamb." 



A similar hybrid was killed for mutton at Fort Kent, Maine, 

 in the fall of 1901. Have been unable to get any description of it. 



Wm. H. Moore, 

 Scotch Lake, York Co., N. B. 



CAPTURE OF THE WHITE-EYED VIREO NEAR 

 WOODSTOCK, ONT. 



By W. D. HoBSON, Woodstock, Ont. 

 (Read before the Ornithological Section of the Entomologfical Society of 



Ontario.) 



About two miles from Woodstock, we have a piece of wood- 

 land composed of small cedars, with here and there a little 

 grassy glade, and some patches of hawthorn and second growth 

 maple. It was here on the 25th day of April, I stole up to a 

 thick clump ot' cedars to listen to the marvellous song ot a ruby 

 crowned kinglet. As I sat down on the mossy trunk ot an old 

 decaying cedar, in whose branches perhaps the ruby crown sang 

 five hundred years ago, I thought, if Nature had only made the 

 ruby crown as large as the eagle and its voice in proportion 

 would it not have converted its favorite spots into veritable 

 temples of music. As I listened a bird came flitting from branch 

 to branch which I took for a yellow throated vireo. On securing 

 it I was surprised to find the iris ot its eyes white, and on looking 

 it up I found it to be the white-eyed vireo. This identification 

 has been confirm d by Mr. W. E. Saunders, of London, to whom 

 I have sent the specimen. It appears to be the first one 

 recorded for Canada. 



