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Hermit Thrushes, 7urdus aonalaschke pallasit, predominating among 
their respective groups. 
Spinus tristis—On October 5, I trapped twelve Goldfinches, between 
10 a.m. and 4 p.m. 
Zonotrichia albicollis—On September 24, I caught two White- 
throated Sparrows, and between that date and October 7 I caught 
eighteen specimens, and one White-crowned Sparrow, Zonotrichia 
leucophrys,and one Swamp Sparrow, Melospiza georgiana. The White- 
throated Sparrows are exceedingly quarrelsome or I might have secured 
double the number as directly a second bird went on the nest the first 
comer would dash at him and drive him off, and I had to be contented 
with single birds generally, where I might have secured a dozen of any 
quiet dispositioned bird.—G. E, ATKINSON. 
Holland River notes.—August 15 to August 19, were spent at 
Holland River, about forty-five miles north of Toronto, and a large 
number of birds were seen, and a few secured. On the morning of August 
16, flocks of thousands of Red-winged Blackbirds, Agelatus pheniceus 
were seen near Holland Landing, and all down the river to Cook’s Bay. 
Numbers of ducks, mostly Teal, were seen as well as quite a number of 
American Bittern, Botaurus Jlentigenosus, and Blue .Herons, Ardea 
herodias, several young Black Terns, Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis, 
and Common Terns, Sterna hirundo, were also flying about the marsh as 
if they had been breeding there. Coots, Pulica americana, Gallinules, 
Gallinula galeata, and different Grebes were common at the mouth of 
the river. We secured one Green-winged Teal, Avas carolinenszs, three 
Bitterns, Botaurus lentiginosus, several Coots, Fulica americana, one 
Pigeon Hawk, Falco columbarius, three Yellow-legs, Totanus flavipes, 
several Blackbirds, and one Kingfisher, Cevy/e alcyon,and J. R. Thurston 
secured a Coot’s nest containing four eggs—J. R. THURSTON, ED. 
DEACON, G. E. ATKINSON. 
(Thirty-fourth Meeting, November 11th, 1890.) 
Chordeiles virginianus.—On Sept. 27, Mr. J. Kelly disturbed a flock 
of about a dozen Night Hawks at Kew, evidently migrating. On Oct. 4, 
I secured a pair of Towhees, Pipzlo erythrophthalmus, at Victoria Park, 
also one male Black-throated Green Warbler, Dendroica virens. On 
Nov. 1, 1 observed a flock of about eight Snowbirds, Plectrophenax nivalis. 
—J. A. VARLEY. 
