82 Fleming, Birds of Toronto, Canada. \f&n 



May, 1888, a very large number of these birds appeared in the city and 

 attracted much attention. 



224. Piranga rubra. Summer Tanager. — "One specimen taken at 

 Scarboro Heights, near Toronto, by Mr. Herring, in May 1890." ' This 

 specimen is now in the museum of the Geological Survey at Ottawa. 



225. Progne subis. Purple Martin. — Regular summer resident, 

 local and decreasing, April 18 to August 25; breeds (June 7, 1890). 



226. Petrochelidon lunifrons. Cliff Swallow. — Regular summer 

 resident, usually from early in May to the middle of August; earliest 

 record April 23, 1890, latest September 8, 1906; breeds locally and is not 

 by any means as common as it was. 



227. Hirundo erythrogastra. Barn Swallow. — Regular summer 

 resident, common April 20 to August 30; earliest record April 8, 1890; 

 breeds (June 25, 1892). 



228. Iridoprocne bicolor. Tree Swallow. — Regular summer resi- 

 dent, common April 8 to September 13; earliest record March 31, 1897; 

 latest fall record October 20, 1906 (H. H. Mitchell); breeds (June 7, 1890). 



229. Riparia riparia. Bank Swallow. — Regular summer resident, 

 common April 19 to September 13; earliest record April 4, 1890, latest 

 October 9, 1886; breeds (June 2, 1892). 



230. Stelgidopteryx serripennis. Rough-winged Swallow. — Prob- 

 ably a rare summer resident; a male was taken May 16, 1900, and on June 

 12, 1906, I found a pair building in an old kingfisher's tunnel and took the 

 female. 



231. Ampelis garrulus. Bohemian Waxwing. — An irregular winter 

 resident, rare. A flight occurred in 1895 when several small flocks spent a 

 month or more in the residential parts of the city. Mr. Geo. E. Atkinson 

 recorded their arrival on February 3; they were absent from the 13th to 

 the 22d, and were last seen on March 6; Mr. Nash took one at East Toronto 

 on the 22d. 



232. Ampelis cedrorum. Cedar Waxwing. — Resident, irregular in 

 winter; breeds (June 20, 1898). 



233. Lanius borealis. Northern Shrike. — Regular winter resident, 

 not very common October 12 to March 22; earliest October 3, 1896; 

 latest April 11, 1898; I took a nest on May 28, 1887, but this is the only 

 record. 



234. Lanius ludovicianus migrans. Migrant Shrike. — Regular 

 summer resident, not very common, April 3 to the end of August; earliest 

 record March 23, 1897. This shrike was not originally found here; it was 

 not represented in the Allen collection formed in 1854-55, nor is it men- 

 tioned in a list of birds published in 1858, 2 and Mcllwraith says it was 

 first observed at Hamilton in April, I860; 3 breeds. 



1 Macoun, Catalogue of Canadian Birds, 537. 



2 Hand Book of Toronto, 1858. The list of Toronto birds, pp. 37-56, is not of 

 much value, and is said to. have been written by Dr. S. P. May. 



3 Canadian Journal, V, 1860, 392. 



