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Icterus galbula, the only specimen ever collected here, and I also 
collected the only male and female Towhee Pzpzlo erythrophthalmus, ever 
taken here. On May 6, 1890, I collected a Black-throated Green War- 
bler, Dendrozca virens, which are just becoming common. 
Nesting of Sitta canadensis, and Parus atricapillus. — Last 
summer I found a nest of the Red-breasted Nuthatch, it was dug ina 
rotten stump about five feet from the ground, and contained young birds 
almost able to fly. Around the entrance to the nest was a ring of pine 
or balsam gum, and as I saw the young birds picking at it I inferred it 
was an insect trap. I also found three nests of the Chickadee, and each 
was lined with the hair of the Lepus americana. 
Kingfisher nesting.—Last summer I saw two nests of the Ceryle 
alcyon, one containing seven eggs and the other six. In the first I 
caught the male and in the second the female, which goes to show that 
the male assists in the incubation.—A. Kay, Port Sydney, Muskoka. 
Nesting of Ontario birds.—From a paper read before the Biological 
Section May 26. . 
Coccyzus erythrophthalmus.—In July 1885, I saw a Black-billed 
Cuckoo, fly off a Wood Pewee’s nest, in an orchard on Bathurst 
Street; and in July 1886, I saw another come off a Yellow Warblers 
nest in the same orchard, I got both eggs. There is no doubt that it 
was the Black-billed Cuckoo, as I shot the bird which came off the 
Pewee’s nest. 
Dryobates pubescens.—I find a Downy Woodpecker’s nest, every 
year in a dead tree about fifteen feet from the ground. 
Colaptes auratus.—I have found the Flickers’ nesting every year, but 
in May 1889, I found a nest which caused a great deal of interest. 
It contained three fresh eggs, and hearing of the strange habit of 
laying a fresh egg every morning whether disturbed or not, I took 
the three eggs and returned next day and got another, and the next 
day I got the fifth, I visited the nest regularly every morning, 
and always got an extra egg until I got twenty eggs out of the nest. 
This settled it, and she left, but I saw her at another tree near by a few 
days later; she was evidently preparing another nest, this time higher up. 
I got up and found this hole about a foot deeper than the first being 
about twenty or twenty-two inches deep, it was empty so I watched 
her to see if I would get another haul but not so. Although I saw 
her at the hole every day, and got up two or three times.a week I 
could find nothing until one Sunday morning July 20, I saw her sitting 
beside the hole, and seemingly pecking at something inside. I frightened 
