October, 1922. 



The Canadian Field-Naturalist 

 NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS 



137 



Occurrence of the Red-Throated Loon at 

 ROSSPORT. Ont. — Rossport, Ontario, is a station 

 on the Canadian Pacific Railway about 50 miles 

 east of Nipigon, and, as the name indicates, lies 

 on Lake Superior. It is a fishing village pre- 

 eminently, and little attention is paid to anything 

 else. On my arrival there on June 20, 1911, I 

 found in the yard of the little hotel, a drowned 

 bird hanging on a ladder to dry. Enquiry elicited 

 the fact that it was not wanted by anyone and 

 that I might have it, so I promptly made a skin 

 of a fine female Red-throated Loon. There was 

 no indication of activity in the ovaries, so I pre- 

 sumed the bird was incubating or feeding young. 

 Nesting of this species is probable in the small 

 lakes back from Superior. — W. E. Saunders. 



Occurrence of Immature Evening Gros- 

 beaks IN Ontario. — On the shore of Pine Lake, 

 Ontario, near Ingolf, early on the morning of 

 August 5, 1920, we were awakened by the break- 

 fast calls from hungry young throats in Knudsen's 

 garden, and to our great delight we distinguished 

 the mellow chatter of Evening Grosbeaks. Has- 

 tening out, we found an adult female feeding her 

 \ two insatiable young birds — the first young Even- 

 {O' ing Grosbeaks, we believe, to be recorded for 

 Ontario. The birds were carefully observed at 

 close range with the aid of 8X binoculars. The 

 fully fledged young were able to make the ser- 

 pentine flight of the Grosbeaks, and they were 

 observed flying about with their mother during 

 the following three hours, while we remained 

 there, but were not seen during the afternoon of 

 August 12 when we returned after canoeing about 

 Hawk, Falcon and High Lakes and Falcon River. 

 Our complete records of Evening Grosbeaks made 

 during this trip are: August 5, 6.30-9.30 a.m., 

 adult female feeding two young near Pine Lake, 

 Ontario; August 6, 2 p.m., heard, then saw, three 

 flying north towards us from over Falcon Lake, 

 Manitoba; August 7, 8.45 a.m., three flying west- 

 ward along north shore of Falcon Lake; August 

 8, 7 a.m., "heard Evening Grosbeaks, Falcon 

 Lake"; August 9, 7.40 a.m., heard, then saw, 

 four flying high southward over High Lake; 

 August 10, 5.40 a.m., two, and between 6.45 and 

 7.50 a.m., four individuals flying singly west 

 along north shore of Falcon Lake, while at 8.00 

 a.m., six in a flock flew east (probably the earlier 

 six returning). While the long wavy flight of the 

 Grosbeaks would carry them easily from one of 

 these lakes to another, it seems more probable 

 that there were at least three on Pine, six at Fal- 

 con, and four on High Lakes. 



In The Auk for October, 1920, fVol. XXXVII. 

 pp. 585-6), Prof. Wm. Rowan records the breeding 

 of the Evening Grosbeak in Manitoba. He says 

 also: "Mr. Lawrence visited Pine Lake on the 

 borders of Manitoba and Ontario ^actually in 

 Ontario) on July 3. He found the Evening Gros- 

 beak in some numbers but found no nest." This 

 fact coupled with our record of the young birds 

 seen 33 days later at or near the same place makes 

 it seem very probable that Evening Grosbeaks 

 bred in western Ontario in the summer of 1920. 

 P. A. Taverner's article on "The Evening Gros- 

 beak in Canada", (The Canadian Field Naturalist, 

 March, 1921, Vol. XXXV, pp. 41-45) makes no 

 mention of young Evening Grosbeaks ever having 

 been recorded for Ontario. — Ralph E. DeLury; 

 Justin S. DeLury. 



Palm Warbler (Dendroica palmarum palm- 

 arum) AT Hatley, Que. — So far as I am aware 

 this is the only record for the Province of Quebec. 

 The bird first attracted my attention on May 12 

 of the present year, 1922. It was flitting about 

 in a small wood adjoining the little marsh near 

 my house, and from the first I felt sure it was 

 palmarum and not hypochrysea or the Yellow Pal m 

 Warbler, as the under parts were very dull ^ n 

 comparison to the bright yellow of an example of 

 hypochrysea I had seen in this same wood only a 

 few days before. However, it was late in the 

 afternoon, and having no gun I had to content 

 myself with the hope that it would be there the 

 following day. In this I was not disappointed, 

 and after a search of some two hours, I again 

 found the bird in a cedar tree and secured it, 

 and later on sent it in the flesh, and pres9nted it to 

 the Victoria Memorial Museum at Ottawa. I 

 find on reference to Knight's Birds of Maine, 1908, 

 that there is no record of the species ever having 

 been taken in Maine. Miss Inez Addie Howe of 

 The Fairbanks Museum of Natural Science at St. 

 Johnsbury, Vermont, writes me on June 10, 1922, 

 that there are no records in the Museum for Ver- 

 mont, their type specimens having been taken in 

 Massachusetts. In Allen's Birds of New Hamp- 

 shire, there are no spring records given, but an 

 example was secured at Shelburne in the Andro- 

 scoggin Valley on September 16, 1884, as recorded 

 by Dr. A. T. Chadbourne, and Mr. Allen speaks of 

 having taken specimens in the Saco Valley at 

 Intervale between the 8th and 14th of September. 

 Its reported presence at Manchester in spring, he 

 goes on to say, is probably an error {Proc. Man- 

 chester Jnst. Arts and Sci., Vol. 11, p. 82. 1901). 

 In Life and Sport on the North Shore (of the St. 



