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Hermit Thrushes, Turdus aonalaschka pallasii, predominating among 

 their respective groups. 



Spinus tristis — On October 5, I trapped twelve Goldfinches, between 

 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. 



Zonotrichia albicollis. — On September 24, I caught two White- 

 throated Sparrows, and between that date and October 7 I caught 

 eighteen specimens, and one White-crowned Sparrow, Zonotrichia 

 leucophrys, and one Swamp Sparrow, Melospiza georgiana. The White- 

 throated Sparrows are exceedingly quarrelsome or I might have secured 

 double the number as directly a second bird went on the nest the first 

 comer would dash at him and drive him off, and I had to be contented 

 with single birds generally, where I might have secured a dozen of any 

 quiet dispositioned bird. — G. E. ATKINSON. 



Holland River notes. — August 15 to August 19, were spent at 

 Holland River, about forty-five miles north of Toronto, and a large 

 number of birds were seen, and a few secured. On the morning of August 

 16, flocks of thousands of Red-winged Blackbirds, Agelaius pfwenicens 

 were seen near Holland Landing, and all down the river to Cook's Bay. 

 Numbers of ducks, mostly Teal, were seen as well as quite a number of 

 American Bittern, Botaurus lentiginosus, and Blue Herons, Ardea 

 herodias, several young Black Terns, Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis, 

 and Common Terns, Sterna hirundo, were also flying about the marsh as 

 if they had been breeding there. Coots, Fidica americana, Gallinules, 

 Gallinula ga/eata, and different Grebes were common at the mouth of 

 the river. We secured one Green-winged Teal, Anas carolinensis, three 

 Bitterns, Botaurus lentiginosus, several Coots, Fulica americana, one 

 Pigeon Hawk, Falco cohtmbarius, three Yellow-legs, Totanus Jlavipes, 

 several Blackbirds, and one Kingfisher, Ceryle alcyon, and J. R. Thurston 

 secured a Coot's nest containing four eggs. — J. R. Thurston, Ed. 

 Deacon, G. E. Atkinson. 



(Thirty-fourth Meeting, November nth, 1890.) 



Chordeiles virginianus. — On Sept. 27, Mr. J. Kelly disturbed a flock 

 of about a dozen Night Hawks at Kew, evidently migrating. On Oct. 4 ( 

 I secured a pair of Towhees, Pipilo erythroplithalmus, at Victoria Park, 

 also one male Black-throated Green Warbler, Dendroica virens. On 

 Nov. 1, 1 observed a flock of about eight Snowbirds, Plectrophenax nivalis. 

 — J. A. Varley. 



