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the time, but shortly afterwards several more were found in the hardv/ood 

 trees on the brow of a hill in the immediate vicinity. In both instances 

 the birds, although near water, were on comparatively high ground and 

 at some distance from the swampy coverts which we would have expected 

 them to affect.— H. F. Moore, Philadclpliia. Pa. 



Dendroica tigrina at Iowa City, in November. — A small bird taken at 

 Iowa City, Iowa, November 27, proved to be a Cape May Warbler {Den- 

 droica tigrina^. It was feeding in the top of a pine tree in one of the 

 door-yards at that place, where it was sliot. It was in immature plimiage, 

 which was very much sf)iled with pine resin: but otherwise was in good 

 condition. — Charles R. Keyes, DcsMoinrs. Io7va. 



Bird Notes from Toronto. — A male StumcUa magna was collected 

 Feb. 21, iSSi, by Mr. Jas. Helliweli, at Highland Creek, about fifteen miles 

 east of Toronto. The bird was in fine plumage and in fairlv good condi- 

 tion. He had his 'home' in a dense thicket in a deep ravine, through 

 which ran a "SpringCreek' (which did not freeze during the winter), about 

 a mile fiom a barn-yard which he visited almost daily, feeding on sweep- 

 ings and pickings from manure. The bird was carefully dissected but no 

 wound or injury' of any kind could be found. The gizzard contained a 

 few small pieces of gravel, a few grains of oats, and pickings from cow 

 dung. This is believed to be the first record of this species wintering 

 north of Lake Ontario. 



A male Melospiza fasciafa was collected Feb. 2, 18S6. by Mr. VVm. 

 Squires, while feeding on amaranthus seeds in a garden in St. Matthews- 

 ward, Toronto. Snow ten inches in depth. Another speci:nen was taken 

 Jan. 31, 1S87, by Mr. Daniel G. Cox, in a ravine in St. James Cemetery, 

 Toronto, in a willow thicket densely grown with goldenrod (So/idago). 

 Snow six inches deep. 



April 4, 1886. Merula mtgratoria Linn. Gizzard contained three hipps 

 oi Rosa blanda undone \i\\-v^ oi Pyrrkarctiu Isabella. Ground frozen. It is 

 not usual for any bird to feed on the larvse of this moth. 



A male Icterus spurius was collected May 13, 1S87, while pursuing in- 

 sects through willow blossoms, just east of the city limits. Believed to be 

 the first authentic record of the occurrence of this bird at Toronto. 



A male European Goldfinch {Cardiielis elegans) was collected May 21, 

 1887, by Mr. Daniel S. Cox, about a mile north of the city limits — one out 

 of four — while resting on the top of a beech tree. The remaining three 

 flew off in a northerly direction. The birds were evidently in a natural 

 condition and migrants from the south, doubtless from the New York 

 colony. — William Brodie, Toronto, Can. 



