62 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [ Vou. 0 Oh 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ‘ORNITHOLOGICAL -SUB- 
SECTION OF TEE BIOLOGICAL: SECTION 
OP THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
EDITED BY THE EDITING COMMITTEE. 
(Twenty-sixth meeting, April 15, 1890). 
Arrivals,— 7otanus melanoleucus, Greater Yellow-legs April 4, on the 
sand-bar, Ashbridge’s bay. Sayornis phoebe, April 14, Phoebe on Don 
Flats. Zonotrichia albicollis, April 14, White-throated Sparrow in city. 
Turdus aonalaschke pallasiz, Hermit Thrush, collected April 14, in the 
city JOHN EDMONDs. 
Arrivals at Sharon, Ont.—Melospiza fasciata, Song Sparrow first 
seen April 3, numerous on April 5, Sza/za szalzs, Bluebirds first seen 
flying high overhead on April 3; April 4, they began to settle down 
and on April 5, were quite common about every fence and stump. 
Sturnella magna, First Meadow Larks seen on April 3, common on 
April 5. Sayornis phebe, Phoebe, observed on April 5, quite common 
on April 7. Passerella tliaca, Toronto.—On April 13, I observed a small 
flock of Fox Sparrows in the Queen’s Park. Sphyrapicus varius. 
On April 13, I watched a female Yellow-bellied Sapsucker in the 
Queen’s: Park, sucking sap from holes she had pierced in the bark of 
a maple tree. Having sucked the sap from the holes already made 
she began pecking another hole and by the time it was finished the old 
ones were filled again, and she would return and empty them. A slight 
disturbance would cause her to fly away a short distance but she soon 
returned to enjoy her favorite drink. Examining the ground at the 
root of the tree I found pieces of bark, cut from the holes, scattered 
around.—C. E. PEARSON. 
Otocoris alpestris praticola.—On April 4, I collected a pair of 
Shore Larks on the Island. The female had been sitting on eggs.—_J. A. 
VARLEY. 
Tachycineta bicolor.—On April 4, I observed the first Tree Swallows 
on the Island and on April 5, I saw about a dozen at Balmy Beach. 
