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been secured, and flocks of Sandpipers were noticed about their usual 
haunts, and then for about a month they almost disappeared and very 
few specimens were seen. 
Larus philadelphia.—On August 4, while returning from Port 
Credit, I secured two Bonaparte’s Gulls, out of a large flock that were 
standing on pieces of floating wood in Humber Bay. 
August 20.—I received a large Ring-billed Gull, Larus delawarensts, 
and a Pectoral Sandpiper, 7yinga maculata, shot on Ashbridge’s Bar. 
Nycticorax nycticorax nevius.—On August 27, I secured a 
Night Heron, on Ashbridge’s Bar. It was a female in the young 
plumage, but had evidently been incubating from the appearance of the 
skin on the belly. On the same date, I also secured a Marsh Hawk 
Circus hudsonius, at the same place. 
On September 13.—I observed several of the Swallows, principally 
Chelidon erythrogaster, and Tachycineta bicolor, with a few specimens 
of Chvicola riparia, still frequenting the Bar. Mr. Loane informs 
me that the Swallows and Blackbirds do not migrate at night, and 
mentions that on several occasions while he was lying in the rushes, 
he saw them rise up just at daybreak, and circling round at a great 
height in the air, they would strike off in a straight line south; and in 
the spring he has seen immense flocks of these birds arrive and settle 
in the rushes between six and nine o’clock in the morning. 
September 15.—I collected two Black and White Warblers, 
Mniotilta varia, one Pine Warbler, Dendroica vigorsiz, and one Ten- 
mnessee Warbler, Helminthophila peregrina, and a female Sharp-shinned 
Hawk, Accipiter velox. 
September 1'77.—Received two Golden Plover, Charadrius dominicus, 
from Ashbridge’s Bar. 
September 20.—In Rosedale to-day, I collected one Nashville 
Warbler, Helmznthophila ruficapilla, and one Blue-headed Vireo, Vireo 
solitarius. 
September 20.—I received one Buff-breasted Sandpiper, 7ryngites 
subruficollis, one Baird’s Sandpiper, 7ringa bairdiz, one Bonaparte’s 
Gull, Larus philadelphia, and one Greater Yellow-leg, Totanus melan- 
oleucus, from Ashbridge’s Bar.—J. R. THURSTON. 
Totanus flavipes.—On August 7, I secured three species of the 
Lesser Yellow-leg, on Ashbridge’s Bar. 
Fall migrations begun.—On September 7, I noticed the first sign 
