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[Extract from Transactions of the Canadian Institute, 1892.] 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ORNITHOLOGICAL SUB- 

 SECTION OF THE BIOLOGICAL SECTION 

 OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



Edited by the Editing Committee. 



(Twenty-sixth meeting, April 15, 1890). 



Arrivals. — Totanus melanoleucus, Greater Yellow-legs April 4, on the 

 sand-bar, Ashbridge's bay. Sayornis phoebe, April 14, Phoebe on Don 

 Flats. Zonotrichia albicollis, April 14, White-throated Sparrow in city. 

 Tardus aonalasckkce pallasii, Hermit Thrush, collected April 14, in the 

 city. — John Edmonds. 



Arrivals at Sharon, Ont. — Melospiza fasciata, Song Sparrow first 

 seen April 3, numerous on April 5, Sialia sialis, Bluebirds first seen 

 flying high overhead on April 3; April 4, they began to settle down 

 and on April 5, were quite common about every fence and stump. 

 Sturnella magna, First Meadow Larks seen on April 3, common on 

 April 5. Sayornis phcebe, Phcebe, observed on April 5, quite common 

 on April 7. Passerella iliaca, Toronto. — On April 13, I observed a small 

 flock of Fox Sparrows in the Queen's Park. Sphyrapicus varius. 

 On April 13, I watched a female Yellow-bellied Sapsucker in the 

 Queen's Park, sucking sap from holes she had pierced in the bark of 

 a maple tree. Having sucked the sap from the holes already made 

 she began pecking another hole and by the time it was finished the old 

 ones were filled again, and she would return and empty them. A slight 

 disturbance would cause her to fly away a short distance but she soon 

 returned to enjoy her favorite drink. Examining the ground at the 

 root of the tree I found pieces of bark, cut from the holes, scattered 

 around.— C. E. PEARSON. 



Otocoris alpestris praticola.— On April 4, I collected a pair of 

 Shore Larks on the Island. The female had been sitting on eggs. — J. A. 

 Varley. 



Tachycineta bicolor. — On April 4, 1 observed the first Tree Swallows 

 on the Island and on April 5, I saw about a dozen at Balmy Beach- 



