Vol. XVII. 
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Pace General Notes. Lay 
Rissa tridactyla. KirrrwAKe.—Several were taken about Toronto in 
November, 1899. 
Strix pratincola. AMERICAN BARN OwL.—A specimen was captured 
alive on a coal dock near the bay-front, Toronto, on September 7, 1899. 
The bird died soon afterwards and proved to bea male. This is the only 
Toronto record I am aware of, certainly the only one in recent years. 
Felecanus erythrorhynchus. AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN.—A male was 
shot on May 27, 1899, in the western bend of Lake Nipissing, Ontario.— 
JAMEs H. FLEMING, Toronto, Can. 
New Brunswick Notes.—It is evidently news to ornithologists that 
the American Robin (Merula migratoria) should be a winter resident in 
New Brunswick, yet such is without a doubt true.. A big-game hunter 
informed me that about a large spring near the headwaters of the Nepis- 
iquit River Robins were seen about the 20th of December, 1898. In the 
latter part of March, 1899, this locality was again visited and the Robins 
_ were there to the number of about fifty. 
The Robins leave this locality (Scotch Lake) late in October or early 
in November, returning generally in the first week of April, but some- 
times in the latter part of March. This locality is situated about 46°N., 
quite a distance south of the Nepisiquit. 
A Turkey Buzzard (Cathartes aura) was captured in March, 1898, 
in Victoria County, N. B., and another seen at Keswick, York County, 
N. B., the same spring. 
A Mourning Dove (Zenatdura macroura),a very rare bird here, was 
taken near Fredericton, Oct. 14, 1899. — WILLIE H. Moore, Scotch Lake, 
York Co., N. B. 
Bird News from Central New York.—In the three years which have 
elapsed since my last communication to ‘The Auk’ I have been able to 
add three new species to our list of Oneida County Birds, which with 
Icteria virens, recorded by Mr. W. J. B. Williams on page 331 of Vol. XV, 
bring the total for our vicinity up to 247. These three are: 
Numenius hudsonicus. HupsoNIAN CURLEW.—A specimen of this 
bird, sex unknown, was shot on Verona Beach, Oneida Lake, by Egbert 
Bagg, Jr., Sept. 5, 1899. : 
Strix pratincolas AMERICAN BARN OwL.— About the middle of 
September, 1898, Mr. Charles L. Smith of Utica was driving in the 
adjoining town of Marcy, when he saw an Owl in a tree beside the road. 
While he was watching the bird, it left its perch and flew to a neighbor- 
ing barnyard where it proceeded to “chase the chickens.” Mr. S. left 
his horse and went to the rescue of the chickens, expecting to see the 
Owl fly away, but instead, it sought safety under the barn (perhaps having 
been there before). Mr. S. crawled in after the bird and captured it alive 
and took it home with him. He kept it alive for some time but finally 
