ONTARIO. 



Hab. Eastern Province of North America, breeding north of the United 

 States, and migrating in winter to the West Indies, Central and South 

 America. 



I have some scruples about including this species in my Hst, 

 as I have no record of its having been taken within the 

 Province, and yet when we consider that it breeds to the north 

 of us, and winters far to the south, there can be no reasonable 

 doubt that it passes through Ontario, but being rather a scarce 

 species may have escaped the notice of sportsmen or it may 

 have been taken and no record made of the occurrence. I 

 anticipate that when this list is made public I will learn 

 of birds having been found in Ontario which are not in- 

 cluded here for the simple reason that I had not heard of it. 

 There being no convenient way of placing such records before 

 the public, they drop out of sight and are forgotten. 



It is to be hoped that the writer of the next list of the birds 

 of Ontario will in this way have many additions to make to 

 the present one. 



While this article was in the hands of the printer 

 Mr. Cross, taxidermist, of Toronto sends me a bird for 

 identification which proves to be this species. It is 

 one of two which were shot near Toronto about the 25th of 

 June last by Mr. Heinrich. Mr. Cross has made a happy hit 

 in the mounting of them. They look like a pair of miniature 

 Curlews. 



Genus TRINGA Linn^us. 



Subgenus TRINGA. 



89. TRINGA CANUTUS Linn. 2.j4. 



Knot. 



Bill equalling or rather exceeding the head, comparatively stout ; adult 

 in summer : above, brownish-black, each feather tipped with ashy-white, and 

 tinged with reddish on scapulars ; below, uniform brownish-red, much as in 

 the Robin, fading into white on the flanks and crissum ; upper tail-coverts 

 white with dusky bars, tail feathers and secondaries grayish-ash with white 

 edges ; quills blackish, gray on the inner webs and with white shafts ; bill 



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