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Elora, Ont. In the first case an egg was laid in the nest of a chipping 
sparrow from which in due time a young cuckoo was hatched. In 
the second case a cuckoo was seen coming from a yellow warbler’s 
nest. Upon examination an egg was found to have been laid, and 
later on the young cuckoo was found with the young warblers which, 
as the cuckoo grew, were crowded from the nest. In the third case 
cited a cuckoo was actually found sitting on a chipping sparrow’s 
nest. An egg was laid and hatched; the young sparrows were finally 
ejected from the nest by the young cuckoo. 
CLXV. CUCULUS LiInN&z&us. 1758. 
388-1. Kamehatkan Cuckoo. 
Cuculus canorus telephonus (HEINE). STEJN. 1885. 
An adult male of this species was collected on the sand dunes 
of Northeast point, St. Paul island, Bering sea, on July 4th, 1890. 
It is the only one of its kind known from North America. (Palmer.) 
FamiIty XXXIII. ALCEDINIDA. Kincrisuers. 
CLXVI. CERYLE Bote. 1828. 
390. Belted Kingfisher. 
Ceryle alcyon (LINN.) BONAP. 1837. 
One of the most widely distributed birds in Canada. Common 
from Newfoundland and Labrador west to Vancouver island. North 
to Hudson bay in the east, to the mouth of the Mackenzie river and 
Kotzebue sound in the west. 
BREEDING Notes.—Summer resident, common. Breeds in suit- 
able places on the island of Montreal. Two eggs taken May 24th, 
1882, out of a burrow in a sandbank at Hochelaga. Observed 
here from May 8th to September 27th. (Wuntle.) This is a com- 
mon bird in eastern Ontario. Its nest is generally found in a sandy 
bank near water, but on two occasions I have found its nest in a 
sand pit some distance away. The full complement of eggs I have 
always found to be seven. These are laid between the 20th and 28th 
of May. I met with this bird in the Magdalen islands in 1897, and 
found it breeding there. (Rev. C. J. Young.) This-species nests 
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