Extract from the Transactions of the Canadian Institute, 1890. 



" In nature there is nothing mean or unworthy of attention." — Huxley. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ORNITHOLOGICAL SUB-SECTION 

 OF THE BIOLOGICAL SECTION OF THE CANA- 

 DIAN INSTITUTE. 



FOR JANUARY, FEBRUARY AND MARCH, 1890. 

 Edited by the Editing Committee. 



(First Meeting, January 14, 1890). 



[The nomenclature in use throughout these papers is that of the A.O.U., as published in 1886.] 



1. Pinicola enucleator at Toronto. — On Jan. 12, on the Glen 

 Road, in Rosedale, I observed a flock of Fine Grosbeaks about 

 twent}' in number. They came from the south-west and alighted 

 in a clump of pine-trees; this was about half-past three in the afternoon ; 

 a few minutes previously, Mr. Thompson informs me, he saw the same 

 flock on Howard Street, where they were feeding on the berries of the 

 mountain ash, surrounded by a large flock of English sparrows, which 

 were resenting the intrusion by noisily chirping, but not attempting any 

 violence. Later in the afternoon I saw another flock, about the same 

 size, flying over from the north. They were very shy, from which we 

 might argue that they had been for some time in the neighborhood, 

 for usually, on first arriving from the north, these birds are so tame 

 as to be easily knocked down with sticks. — John Edmonds. 



2. Ampelis cedrorum. — While walking in the ravine of St. James' 

 Cemetery, on the morning of Jan. 1, I came on a pair of Cedar- 

 Waxwings ; they were perched on a tree about thirty feet from where I 

 stood, in clear view, so that there is no doubt about the identification. 

 I mention this, because although Mr. Mcllwraith gives the cedar bird 

 as a winter as well as a summer resident, there are very few, per- 

 haps not more than four or five, authentic records of its occurrence 

 about Toronto in the winter. — J. L. Jackson. 



