484 Mousley, Birds of Hatletj, Quebec. [^ 



also informed me that he had seen a Meadowlark on the twelfth 

 and a Crow on the twenty-third, and that a female Merganser had 

 been shot on Lake Massawippi on the sixteenth. The month 

 closed without further incident, and it was not until December 

 the fourth that anything occurred worth chronicling. On that day 

 two more Crows were seen, a rather unusual thing, but brought 

 about by the mild open weather that had prevailed up to this date, 

 the thermometer never having registered anything below zero 

 until the first of the month. On the ninth I received another letter 

 from Mr. Greer, informing me that he had seen a Herring Gull on 

 the sixth, and a flock of fourteen Golden Eyes on Lake Massawippi 

 on the fourth, out of which he and a friend had secured two females. 

 I find Gosse in 'The Canadian Naturalist,' 1840, p. 54, records 

 these ducks as occurring early in March (1836-39) on unfrozen 

 parts of the Massawippi River, which looks as if they are regular 

 although somewhat rare migrants. 



On the fourteenth it became very mild, with heavy rain, so that 

 on the following day the fields were green once more, and from this 

 date onward fine open weather continued until the twenty-fourth, 

 when a heavy fall of snow converted what otherwise looked like 

 being a green Christmas into a white one. All through this period, 

 however, and up to the end of the year very few birds were noted, ' 

 only the usual small flocks of Redpolls; Pine Grosbeaks, and Chicka- 

 dees being in evidence, with a few Blue Jays and a Pileated Wood- 

 pecker on the fifteenth. The other winter birds, such as Evening 

 Grosbeaks, Snow Buntings, Northern Shrikes, and Goshawks, have 

 not put in an appearance, or at least if they have done so I have 

 failed to notice them. 



Appended will be found the annotated notes on the four new and 

 one extirpated species added to my list during the past year. 



164. Larus delawarensis (Orel.). Ring-billed Gull. — Rare tran- 

 sient. Probably this Gull is merely an accidental transient, blown inland 

 by easterly gales, one of which had been raging in the first week of Decem- 

 ber, 1917, just previous to an example being taken in a marsh not so very 

 far from Massawippi Railway Station. I saw and identified the bird 

 (which had been kept in a frozen condition) in the flesh while calling 

 upon Mr. Greer on January 22, 1918, and have since seen it mounted 

 ready for its present owner, Mr. E. H. English of Massawippi, who, however, 



