1891-92]. ORNITHOLOGICAL REPORT. 45 



Icterus galbula, the only specimen ever collected here, and I also 

 collected the only male and female Towhee Pipilo erythrophtkalmus, ever 

 taken here. On May 6, 1890, I collected a Black-throated Green War- 

 bler, Dendroica virens, which are just becoming common. 



Nesting of Sitta canadensis, and Parus atricapillus- — Last 

 summer I found a nest of the Red-breasted Nuthatch, it was dug in a 

 rotten stump about five feet from the ground, and contained young birds 

 almost able to fly. Around the entrance to the nest was a ring of pine 

 or balsam gum, and as I saw the young birds picking at it I inferred it 

 was an insect trap. I also found three nests of the Chickadee, and each 

 was lined with the hair of the Lepus americana. 



Kingfisher nesting. — Last summer I saw two nests of the Ceryle 

 alcyon, one containing seven eggs and the other six. In the first I 

 caught the male and in the second the female, which goes to show that 

 the male assists in the incubation. — A. Kay, Port Sydney, Muskoka. 



Nesting of Ontario birds. — From a paper read before the Biological 

 Section May 26. 



Coccyzus erythrophthalmus- — In July 1885, I saw a Black-billed 

 Cuckoo, fly off a Wood Pewee's nest, in an orchard on Bathurst 

 Street; and in July 1886, I saw another come off a Yellow Warblers 

 nest in the same orchard, I got both eggs. There is no doubt that it 

 was the Black-billed Cuckoo, as I shot the bird which came off the 

 Pewee's nest. 



Dryobates pubescens. — I find a Downy Woodpecker's nest, every 

 year in a dead tree about fifteen feet from the ground. 



Oolaptes auratus.— I have found the Flickers' nesting every year, but 

 in May 1889, I found a nest which caused a great deal of interest. 

 It contained three fresh eggs, and hearing of the strange habit of 

 laying a fresh egg every morning whether disturbed or not, I took 

 the three eggs and returned next day and got another, and the next 

 day I got the fifth. I visited the nest regularly every morning, 

 and always got an extra egg until I got twenty eggs out of the nest 

 This settled it, and she left, but I saw her at another tree near by a few 

 days later ; she was evidently preparing another nest, this time higher up. 

 I got up and found this hole about a foot deeper than the first being 

 about twenty or twenty-two inches deep, it was empty so I watched 

 her to see if I would get another haul but not so. Although I saw 

 her at the hole every day, and got up two or three times a week I 

 could find nothing until one Sunday morning July 20, I saw her sitting 

 beside the hole, and seemingly pecking at something inside. I frightened 



