76 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. | Vou. 1G. 
Ardea virescens, Green Heron, was shot at the Humber and brought to 
me on May 24. ‘ 
A new species for Ontario.—-On May 18, a very. interesting capture 
was made on Toronto Island, and I afterwards received the bird; it was a 
small Bittern with all the colorings very dark and blended into rich 
chestnut brown on the back. It was so unlike the Least Bittern 
that I put it down as a new bird and soon identified it as Botaurus 
neoxenus, Cory’s Least Bittern. It is a resident of Florida and Mexico, 
and is supposed to have wandered up here with our Botaurus exilis, 
during migration.—W. Cross. 
(Thirtieth Meeting, June 3). 
Another rare species—On May 23,a Gull was brought to my 
store. It had been shot on Toronto Island and being unlike any of our 
native species I had it thoroughly examined and it proved to be a male 
Laughing Gull, Larus atricilla. This is, I believe, the first record of 
this bird for Ontario. 
Other rare birds.—June 2,1 received a female Wilson’s Phalarope 
Phalaropus tricolor, in full breeding plumage shot at Toronto Marsh. 
Also one Black Tern, Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis, and on May 
28, one Caspian Tern, Sterna tschegrava, and one Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 
Coccyzus americanus.—WM. CROSS. 
Coccyzus erythrophthalmus.—The first Black-billed Cuckoo was 
secured on Well’s Hill on May 28. 
Matures Accipiter atricapillus—On June 2, on Well’s Hill I heard 
crows raising a disturbance and on investigating I saw a large Hawk fly 
to the top of a tree near by. I at once identified it as an adult Goshawk. 
I fired but the charge was too light and I did not secure him.—G. E. 
ATKINSON. 
Passerina cyanea.—On June 3,1 saw the first Indigo Bunting at 
Kew Gardens.—J. A. VARLEY. 
(Thirty-first meeting, June 17). 
Seiurus motacilla, at the Credit.—On August 23, 1888, I collected 
a young female of the Large-billed Water Thrush, on the Credit River, 
about five miles north of Lake Ontario. This I believe is the most 
