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Nyctea ivyctea. Snowi Owl. The majority of Snowy Owls that 

 migrate into southern Ontario in winter are birds of the year, but in 1906, 

 a Right of adults, males as far as 1 examined them, appeared on Ootober 13, 



\ \ ery white one was taken at Toronto, on November 1. three more males 

 were taken, two of them almost spotless, the other very white. I examined 

 between November 19 and 26, several more exceptionally white birds 

 the city and three from Bradford, 10 miles north of Toronto, these were 

 vv white birds. 



Otocoris alpestris hoyti. llovr's HORNED Lark. One male taken 



Sydney, Muskoka, May 17, 1909, by Mr. Alfred Kay in whose 



collection the bird now is. This is probably a non-breeding bird, and was 



shot, together with one Horned I. ark and one Prairie Horned l.ark. from 



a small tloek that had been for some time about Mr. Kay's yard. 



Hespeviphona vospertina vespertina. Evening Grosbeak. Small 

 - visited [orontO in March, 1907, and February. \W. and from 

 \ ' Fanuary 29, 1911, flocks were in and about the 



eity I counted twenty, many of them old males, in one mountain ash. 



Calcaiius pictus. SMITH'S LONGSPUR. An immature female taken 

 '. Geo E. Atkinson, at Tort Arthur, Ontario, in September. 1892, 

 is in my collection and is the tits; Ontario record. It is due to Mr. 

 Mian Brooks' keenness that tie bird was recognised in my collection, and 

 1 have since checked the identity with the aid of Or. .1. Dwight, Jr.. and 

 Or. 1 ouis B. Bishop, as the stage of plumage is a little known one. 



Progne subis subis. Porple Martin. There has been a noticeable 

 increase in the number of Martins about Toronto sinee 1906. In 1909 one 

 pair returned to the old nesting box in my garden that had been abandoned 

 for several years, and bred, and in 1912, seven pairs brought off broods in 

 the same box 





