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en at Toronto. The latest fall date recorded for Toronto is September 

 16, 1891. Later specimens have been taken at Toronto as follows: 

 Sept. 15, 1917; Sept. 30, 1916, and October 2, 1907.— H. L. 



Accipiter cooperi. Cooper's Hawk. — -Winter and spring records are 

 unusual in the Toronto region. One was taken on December 6th, 1890, 

 at Toronto; one on January 23rd, 1915, at Oakville, 19 miles west of To- 

 ronto; one on February 8th, 1907, at Newmarket, 34 miles north of To- 

 ronto; one at Toronto, on March 8th, 1913; all immature birds. A full 

 plumaged adult male was taken on April 30, 1914; and another adult on 

 April 6th, 1918, at Toronto.— J. H. F. 



Aquila chrysaetos. Golden Eagle. — One was taken alive at Pal- 

 grave, in Peel County, on November 1 th, 1915, and sent to Toronto. 

 Palgrave is about 32 miles north-west of Toronto. — J. H. F. 



Haliaeetus leucocephalus alascanus. Northern Bald Eagle. — 

 An adult male Bald Eagle was shot at Scarboro Bluffs, Toronto, on 

 January 26, 1918. The bird was in poor condition from starvation. Jan- 

 uary was an exceptionally cold month, with a heavy fall of snow. — H. L. 



Pandion haliaetus carolinensis. Osprey.— One shot on April 16, 

 1904, at Toronto Island is an early record, and two taken on September 

 10, 1913, and October 11, 1915, respectively, are late records. — H. L. 



Asio wilsonianus. Long-eared Owl. — Late Toronto dates are: 

 November 10, 1917; November 11, 1918; November 14, 1914; November 

 18, 1916; and December 19, 1914.— H. L. 



Bubo virginianus. Horned Owl. — The senior author has already 

 recorded a migration of Horned Owls into Southern Ontario that occurred 

 during the winter of 1907-'08, 1 and though much the largest up to that 

 time, it was insignificant compared with the movement that took place 

 between the last week of October, 1917, and the end of January, 1918. 

 The resident form Bubo virginianus virginianus seems to have had warn- 

 ing, and moved out ahead of the rush from the north; the last one was 

 examined on October 22nd and the local bird did not reappear till towards 

 the end of the following January after the last of the invaders had gone 

 home or been killed. The only exception noted was a typical resident 

 bird taken on December 25. The first non-resident bird appeared on the 

 27th of October and by the second week of November the movement had 

 assumed large proportions, commencing to slow up early in December, and 

 had virtually ceased by the middle of that month, though a few loiterers 

 continued to be taken up to the third week of January and a dark male 

 referred to subarcticus, was taken on March 16th, 1918. In all, about one 

 hundred and twenty-five Horned Owls were examined, of these, quite one 

 hundred were taken in the immediate vicinity of Toronto, and the others 

 within a radius of sixty miles. The owls were in good condition, some had 

 obviously eaten skunk, some had eaten cottontails and muskrats, and 

 a few had eaten mice, but the majority found poultry the easiest food, 



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