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Yellow Warbler, Dendroica (estiva. May 3, secured two males and one 

 female Red Crossbill, Loxia curvirostra minor, at the same place. May 

 4, saw first Crested Flycatcher, Myiarclms crinitus, on Well's Hill. 



Sparrows eating beech buds. — May 5, 1 watched a flock of Passer 

 domesticus, eating beech buds in the University Grounds. They go in 

 flocks of about 20, from tree to tree and destroy the buds at the rate of 

 about 5 per minute for each bird. They cut the buds off close to the twig,, 

 eat the soft pip and drop the shells. On May 1 1, 1 also saw three Rose- 

 breasted Grosbeaks feeding at the same place and in the same manner, 

 occasionally darting out at a passing insect. I managed to secure one 

 and its stomach was packed with these buds. 



More arrivals. — May 6, Oven-bird, Seiurus aurocapillus. May 10, 

 Rosebreasted Grosbeak, Habia ludoviciana, Blueheaded Vireo, Vireo 

 solitarius. May 13, Bob-o-link, Dolichonyx oryzivorus, Catbird, Galeos- 

 coptes carolinensis. — G. E. ATKINSON. 



Twenty-ninth meeting, May 27, 1890), 



Arrivals- — May 19, Tyrannus tyrannus, Kingbird. Sy/vania pusilla. 

 Wilson's Warbler. Sylvania canadensis, Canadian Warbler. 



Observations and collections, at Orillia, Ont. — I secured three 

 Baltimore Orioles, Icterus galbula, and several Warblers on May 24. 

 May 25, secured a male Maryland Yellow-throat, Goethlypis trichas. 



Nests. — May 26, at Orillia, I found a nest of Quiscalus quisculaameus, 

 Bronzed Grackles, containing four full fledged young birds. One nest 

 of Chipping Sparrow, Spizella socialis, containing two eggs, and one 

 nest of the Barn Swallow, Chelidon erytlirogaster, containing four eggs 

 — G. E. Atkinson. 



Migration at its height — On May 3, in Rosedale, I saw large 

 numbers of Warblers, among them were the Chestnut-sided, Dendroica 

 pensylvanica, Blackburnian, Dendroica blackburnice, and one Cerulean 

 Warbler, Dendroica ccerulea. May 24, a Mourning Dove, Zenaidura 

 macroura, was secured at Little York, also three Baybreasted, Dendroica 

 castanea, one Cerulean Warbler, Dendroica ccerulea, and one Cape May 

 Warbler, Dendroica tigrina, were brought to me. I also secured 

 several specimens of the Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Trochilus 

 colubris, which are very numerous this season ; a male specimen of 



