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Kingston late in November. At Hamilton, at the western 

 end of Lake Ontario, they were first seen on November 20th, 

 and the last on December 7th and 8th. At Toronto, forty 

 miles east, on the north shore of the lake, they were not seen 

 till November 29th, and were common from December 7th 

 to 13th; none were seen alive after this, except one on 

 January 14th, that was feeding in the vicinity of a sewer at 

 Toronto. Mr. Geo. E. Atkinson says of the Toronto birds : — 

 " The condition of the birds was good in most cases, but 

 the last birds taken were poor. An examination of some 

 twenty-eight stomachs revealed no traces of food, though 

 they had evidently not been empty long. Three only of the 

 stomachs contained a few pieces of slate or gravel. The 

 sexual organs were unrecognizable in about four to one of 

 the specimens, and of the others the number of males and 

 females were about equal. The plumage of the birds varied 

 considerably, some being pure white all up the neck and 

 throat, and jet black on the back of the neck and head, 

 while others were duller on the back of the neck, and mixed 

 with black on the throat, and a few were black all round the 

 throat and neck " (1). 



In Connecticut there is a record of one taken November 18th 

 at Rocky Hill (6) in Hartford County on the Connecticut 

 River, and another at Hanover (35) considerably further up the 

 river in New Hampshire in the following February or March. 

 These New England records are of considerable interest in 

 view of the absence of records anywhere on the coast. 



1894-5. 



Connecticut furnishes the only eastern records for this 

 migration. At Stamford, on Long Island Sound and close 

 to the mouth of the Housatonic River, December 15th, at 

 Portland, on the Connecticut River, about the middle of the 

 State on the 23rd, at Lake Saltonstall about the 25th, and 

 Stony Creek January 1st. 



In New York the records are principally in the north- 

 eastern part of the State. At Boon ville (7) about December 

 5th, at Utica (7) on the 24th, and Johnstown (8). At Ottawa, 



