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shot in November, 1918, near Presqu'ile Point, Lake Ontario. This 

 bird I saw shortly after it was shot, and at once recognised the 

 species from its resemblance to the European Black-tailed Godwit. 

 It is now extremeh' rare and, like the Esquimaux Curlew, in danger 

 of becoming altogether extinct. Other records for the east of 

 Lake Ontario are one shot by Mr. E. Beaupre, of Kingston, October, 

 1895, and another in 1898. 



The Rough-winged Swallow is a bird that is extending its range 

 eastwards. There are but few records of its appearance east of 

 Toronto, although recently it has been met with as far as Ottawa. 

 I first noticed two pairs breeding in a sandy bank at Weller's 

 Bay in the summer of 1916. The following year I found a pair 

 breeding in an abandoned Kingfisher's hole in the bank of the creek 

 at Brighton. The habits of this bird are dissimilar to those of the 

 Sand Swallow. They mostly keep in pairs, and here at any rate 

 they are not gregarious. The nest is lined not with feathers, but 

 with dried grass, dead as well as green leaves, and small t^vigs are 

 present. In the nest I examined in 1917 was a dead bird which 

 I forwarded to Mr. Saunders, knowing he was perfectly familiar 

 with the species. The indentification was complete. Since the 

 above date I have failed to identify any Rough-winged Swallows 

 in this neighbourhood ; and for that matter even the Sand Swallows 

 have been scarcer than formerlv. 



OOLOGICAL RESEARCH. 



By The Editor. 



We are so familiar with all the facts and data that have been 

 recorded abovtt the common, and even the rare, birds of our own 

 countryside that we take them for granted. To those oologists, 

 however, who find themselves in a country of which the oology is 

 a closed book, a very wide field of research is open. Random notes 

 are of little use, and in order to aid and direct attention to the points 

 that should be noted we have thought it worth while to prepare 

 a schedule of these points in such a form as to be readily available 

 for the use of working oologists everywhere. Our printers will 

 have a number of these schedules printed on good quality paper, 

 and they will be available for the use of our readers at the prices 

 printed on the inside of the back cover. We do not propose to 



