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in Toronto marsh, and on May 16,1 shot a male Piranga erythromelas, 
at Kew Beach, Toronto.—J. A. VARLEY. 
(Forty-eighth Meeting, June 9, 1891). 
Zonotrichia albicollis—On June 6, I came across a pair of White- 
throated Sparrows, whose actions suggested the proximity of their nest, 
but I failed to find it, so I shot both birds. Next day I visited the 
same place and heard another bird singing, and on approaching him, the 
female flew from a clump of bushes. I hunted thoroughly for a nest 
but could not find one, so I left the birds intending to watch them more 
closely another time.-—EDWARD DEACON. 
Bald-headed Eagles killing Deer.—In the spring of 1891, I had 
two specimens of the Bald-headed Eagle, Halzeetus leucocephalus, sent to 
me to be mounted, from Redwood, on Lake Joseph, Muskoka. On 
making enquiries, I learned that they were caught in the act of eating 
a Deer they had just killed. Mr. Lee, who owns them relates the 
circumstances as follows: 
“ The winter of 1890-1, I spent in company with a friend trapping in 
that section of country lying north-west of Lake Joseph. Returning 
one day from a visit to our traps, we were going round an arm of the 
lake when five eagles rose from the ice and flew out towards the lake. I 
was carrying a pack of skins and had my rifle strapped on my back, 
but my partner not being hampered, fired and killed the white-headed 
bird. We went to where they rose from, and found the remains of a doe 
fawn of about seventy-five pounds weight ; the animal had ventured out 
en the ice, and being some distance from cover had fallen an easy prey to 
the flock of hungry birds. We went back on the tracks some distance, and 
not seeing the tracks of any other animal were quite sure that it was 
killed by the Eagles. We poisoned the carcass and returning next day 
found the young bird dead, close by. Two other cases of small Deer 
killed by Eagles had come under my notice the same winter, but | 
have never known them do so during my former residence in the country, 
and do not know of anybody who has had a like experience.” The 
white-headed bird referred to was a mature specimen with pure white 
head and tail, and large yellow beak, the young bird was full sized, a 
large powerful bird, possibly over a year old, the bill horn coloured, and 
the head and tail washed and blotched with a dirty greyish white, the 
markings from the head extending some distance down the middle of 
the back below the usual termination of the neck marking. 
Mr. Lee was of the opinion that all five birds were of the same 
family, z.e. two old birds and three youngones.—JAMES R. THURSTON. 
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