1891-92]. ORNITHOLOGICAL REPORT. 65 



"When removed from its site in the mould, and rootlets of the " turn up," 

 I found that the outside circumference was about fourteen inches, inside 

 it would be about eight. The door was near the top in the outer side, 

 leaving a soft and warm cavity of about two inches deep for the reception 

 of the eggs and the cradle of the young. I did not at this time see or 

 hear either of the parent Wrens, near the nest, but when I next visited 

 the place, the songs of the male bird fairly made the echoes ring in the 

 vicinity. There was, however, no mistaking the sound as that of the 

 Winter or Wood Wren, for there is no other Canadian bird that makes a 

 nest in any way resembling it, though the eggs are very like those of the 

 Chickadee and Brown Creeper. From what I could see of the inside of 

 this nest when discovered, I inferred that it was finished, and probably 

 occupied, and I was not disappointed, for on inserting a finger, I found 

 that it contained five eggs, and perfectly fresh, the color almost pure 

 white, with a few reddish dots towards the larger end, being less spotted 

 than others that I had seen, and before the contents were extracted they 

 had a pinkish hue. Some five or six other newly made nests of this 

 species were observed in this vicinity the past season, but none of them 

 contained eggs or had inner lining, and I am led to conclude that they 

 were the work of male birds. All of these were in the roots of fallen 

 trees, and well concealed, and the female must have had her true nest 

 near by, as the songs of the males were heard throughout the season. 

 This was the fourth nest with eggs found in this vicinity in a period 

 of fourteen years. — Wm. L. KELLS, Listowel. 



(Forty-Second Meeting, March II, 1891.) 



Perisoreus canadensis. Picoides arcticus. Dryobates villosus 

 leucomelas. Nyctala acadica. — On February 24, received a pair of 

 each of these species from Bardsville, Muskoka. — W. CROSS. 



Loxia curvirostra minor. — February 25, saw a small flock, feeding 

 on Mountain Ash berries, on College Street, Toronto. — E. DEACON. 



Spinus tristis. — February 26. A flock of twenty are feeding on 

 crumbs at my back-door, the first I have seen this season. 



Acanthis linaria. —I have neither seen nor heard one this winter. 

 February 21. 



Corvus americana. — Occasional during this winter, 1891. — A. Kay 

 Port Sidney, (is about 150 miles north of Toronto. — EDITORS.) 



