152 The Ottawa Naturalist. [November 



time. In the evening I took a nest of the Savannah sparrow be- 

 hind the house, with nve fresh eggs, and saw a second one close 

 by. A few razor-bills and common guillemots are said to breed 

 in the cliffs, but I did not see any, The only other birds of 

 interest were a pair of loons, and a pair of young ravens. 



June 26th. — I started to walk along the beach towards 

 the east point, and on the way met with the semi- 

 palmated plover. It is easily distinguished from the piping- 

 plover by its darker plumage and broad black ring. Its note 

 also is entirely different. I watched the bird for a long time' 

 hoping to locate its nest, but failed to do so, though con- 

 fident it was breeding, Later I found a spotted sandpiper's 

 nest with four eggs, and met with two pairs of rusty blackbirds- 

 These appeared to have young, but I searched for the nest 

 among the stunted spruces in vain. Towards evening the cry of 

 the Wilson's snipe was very noticeable, and there must have 

 been several pairs breeding near the lagoon, among the fresh 

 water ponds. The only other birds seen to-day were the fox- 

 sparrow, the black-poll warbler, and the piping-plover, besides 

 one hawk, which could not be identified. 



On the following day we drove back to Grindstone Is- 

 land along the beach, the rest of our party having returned from 

 Bryon Island. With the exception of a raven perched on a 

 telegraph pole, a semi-palmated plover on a salt marsh by the 

 the lagoon, and a marsh hawk, I saw no more birds of any parti- 

 cular interest. The marsh-hawk and the hawk seen yesterday, 

 were the only birds of prey with the exception of the ospreys 

 and owl, which I noticed on the Magdalens. 



June 28th" — I visited the black-poll warbler's nest to-day, 

 which I found on the 15th. It contained four eggs slightly in- 

 cubated. In the afternoon I found a robin's nest with three 

 fresh eggs The next day was very chilly, and with the excep- 

 tion of starting a pair of Wilson's snipe in the small swamp near 



