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BIRDS NEW TO ONTARIO. 
By W. E. SAUNDERS. 
The following list of birds comprises those new to Ontario 
which have been taken in the Western Peninsula since the is- 
suance of Mcllwraith’s revised work. Some of the notes here 
given have been already published in THrt OTTaAwa NATURALIST 
and Macoun’s Catalogue of Canadian Birds, but some of this ma- 
terial is new and it has not previously been brought together. 
CaROLINA WREN ( Tryothorus ludovicianus ). The first one 
was shot by Montague Smith in Forest in February, 1891, after 
having been observed in the village for nearly a month. No more 
were reported for Ontario until this year when Mr. O. J. Steven- 
son, St. Thomas, found one in the Elgin ravine in that city, where 
it lived from some time in the winter, until September at least, and 
may be there yet. It was not ascertained whether the bird had a 
mate or spent the summer alone, but the observers there suspect 
that a brood was raised. I went tosee this bird on April 25th, 
1905, and spent half an hour watching him. He had a fine, clear 
whistle in thirds, which he repeated rapidly four times as a rule. 
After singing for two or three minutes he would betake himself to 
trees, shrubs or brush on the ground and feed for a while before 
again mounting to one of the high locations from which he sang. 
In a study of the fauna of Pelee Point and vicinity in Septem- 
ber, 1905, by a group of ornithologists, Mr. A. B. Klugh, Guelph, 
found a brood of this species and took at least one of the fledg- 
lings, and Lynds Jones, Oberlin, Ohio, found others at the same 
time on Pelee Island. Details of this work have appzared in The 
Auk. 
Cray-Sparrow (Spzzella pusilla). A specimen was found 
by myself on May 9, 1894, fifteen miles west of London and taken. 
The record was published in volume 1. Biological Review of On- 
tario. 
Kentucky WARBLER ( Geothlypsis formosa). The record 
previously published of a specimen taken by Robt. Elliott near 
Bryanston, on May 16, 1808, is the only Canadian one to date. 
The bird is a male in high plumage. 
HENsLow’s Sparrow (Ammodramus Henslowit). On May 
