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Ardea virescens, Green Heron, was shot at the Humber and brought to 

 me on May 24. 



A new species for Ontario. — On Ma}' 18, a very interesting capture 

 was made on Toronto Island, and I afterwards received the bird; it was a 

 small Bittern with all the colorings very dark and blended into rich 

 chestnut brown on the back. It was so unlike the Least Bittern 

 that I put it down as a new bird and soon identified it as Botaurits 

 neoxenus, Cory's Least Bittern. It is a resident of Florida and Mexico, 

 and is supposed to have wandered up here with our Botaurus exilis, 

 durincr migration. — W. CROSS. 



(Thirtieth Meeting, June 3). 



Another rare species. — On May 23, a Gull was brought to my 

 store. It had been shot on Toronto Island and being unlike any of our 

 native species I had it thoroughly examined and it proved to be a male 

 Laughing Gull, Larus airicilla. This is, I believe, the first record of 

 this bird for Ontario. 



Other rare birds. — June 2, I received a female Wilson's Phalarope 

 Phalaropus tricolor, in full breeding plumage shot at Toronto Marsh. 

 Also one Black Tern, Hydroclielidon nigra surinamensis, and on May 

 28, one Caspian Tern, Sterna tschegrava, and one Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 

 Coccyzus americanits.—W'M. CROSS. 



Coccyzus erythrophthalmus. — The first Black-billed Cuckoo was 

 secured on Well's Hill on May 28. 



Mature Accipiter atricapillus. — On June 2, on Well's Hill I heard 

 crows raising a disturbance and on investigating I saw a large Hawk fly 

 to the top of a tree near by. I at once identified it as an adult Goshawk. 

 I fired but the charge was too light and I did not secure him. — G. E # 

 Atkinson. 



Passerina cyanea- — On June 3, I saw the first Indigo Bunting at 

 Kew Gardens.— J. A. Varley. 



(Thirty-first meeting, June 17). 



Seiurus motacilla, at the Credit. — On August 23, 1888, I collected 

 a young female of the Large-billed Water Thrush, on the Credit River, 

 about five miles north of Lake Ontario. This I believe is the most 



