1920 J Fleming and Lloyd, Ontario Bird Notes. 4ol 



Colymbus auritus. Horned Grebe. — On February 9, 1918, one 

 was seen leisurely swimming among the drift ice in Lake Ontario near 

 Toronto. It was -23° F. on February 5th, but rained on the night of 

 February 8. — H. L. 



Podilymbus podiceps. Pied-billed Grebe. — A male was taken at 

 Toronto on April 2, 1918, by Mr. J. S. Carter. This is the earliest To- 

 ronto record and the bird had not yet assumed the adult male plumage. 

 — H. L. 



Larus marinus. Great Black-backed Gull. — A bird, not fully 

 adult, was taken at Toronto Island October 31, 1914. — J. H. F. 



Sula bassana. Gannet. — On November 5, 1918, Thomas and Dun- 

 can McDonnell shot a Gannet on Lake Ontario, near Gibraltar Point, 

 Toronto. I obtained the bird from them in the flesh and found that it 

 was a male (?) in immature plumage. Its stomach was empty but the 

 bird appeared to be in good condition. There is one previous Toronto 

 specimen 1 and about 4 others from the rest of the Province of Ontario, 

 one being from Oshawa, one from Hamilton and two from Ottawa have 

 been recorded. — H. L. 



Mergus americanus. Merganser.— During August, 1916, a family 

 of Mergansers regularly swam past my cottage, in the Narrows of Lake 

 Joseph, Muskoka. On the tenth I made a careful count and found one 

 adult female in charge of thirty-one young, one of which was noticeably 

 smaller than the others. The flock usually passed only a few yards from 

 the house but there was only the one old bird. — J. H. F. 



This is corroborated although the bird may have been a Red-breasted 

 Merganser by the following note. On July 5, 1909, as I came into Lake 

 Obabika from Wakimika Creek, Temagami Forest Reserve, Ontario, a 

 Merganser swam out ahead of me and she was the proud possessor of 

 thirty-seven ducklings. — H. L. 



Mergus serrator. Red-breasted Merganser. — A female taken near 

 West Hill, Ontario, from a small flock, on May 9, 1916, is the latest spring 

 record for the Toronto district. West Hill is about 8 miles east of To- 

 ronto. — H. L. 



Marila affinis. Lesser Scaup Duck. — The latest Toronto date is 

 October 29, 1895. On November 21, 1913, I took a male at Lake Scugog 

 about sixty miles north-east of Toronto. — H. L. 



Marila collaris. Ring-necked Duck. — On November 5, 1918, Mr. 

 C. A. H. Clark shot one in the plumage of the female over our decoys at 

 Honey Harbor, Muskoka District, Ontario. — H. L. 



Oidemia deglandi. White-winged Scoter.— I examined an adult 

 male at Toronto May 14, 1913, and saw a large flock at the mouth of the 

 Niagara River on May 18, 1914. Mr. J. Hughes Samuel noted in his 

 diary in 1897 large flocks seen May 26, one bird on June 3, and from 



i. Fleming, Auk XXX, p. 225. 



