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in Toronto marsh, and on May 16, I shot a male Piranga erythromelas, 

 at Kew Beach, Toronto. — J. A. Varley. 



(Forty-eighth Meeting, June 9, 1891). 



Zoaotrichia albicollis— On June 6, I came across a pair of White- 

 throated Sparrows, whose actions suggested the proximity of their nest, 

 but I failed to find it, so I shot both birds. Next day I visited the 

 same place and heard another bird singing, and on approaching him, the 

 female flew from a clump of bushes. I hunted thoroughly for a nest 

 but could not find one, so I left the birds intending to watch them more 

 closely another time. — Edward Deacon. 



Bald-headed Eagles killing Deer.— In the spring of 1891, I had 

 two specimens of the Bald-headed Eagle, Haliceetus leucocephalus, sent to 

 me to be mounted, from Redwood, on Lake Joseph, Muskoka. On 

 making enquiries, I learned that they were caught in the act of eating 

 a Deer they had just killed. Mr. Lee, who owns them relates the 

 circumstances as follows : 



"The winter of 1 890-1, I spent in company with a friend trapping in 

 that section of country lying north-west of Lake Joseph. Returning 

 one day from a visit to our traps, we were going round an arm of the 

 lake when five eagles rose from the ice and flew out towards the lake. I 

 was carrying a pack of skins and had my rifle strapped on my back, 

 but my partner not being hampered, fired and killed the white-headed 

 bird. We went to where they rose from, and found the remains of a doe 

 fawn of about seventy-five pounds weight ; the animal had ventured out 

 on the ice, and being some distance from cover had fallen an easy prey to 

 the flock of hungry birds. We went back on the tracks some distance, and 

 not seeing the tracks of any other animal were quite sure that it was 

 killed by the Eagles. We poisoned the carcass and returning next day 

 found the young bird dead, close by. Two other cases of small Deer 

 killed by Eagles had come under my notice the same winter, but I 

 have never known them do so during my former residence in the country, 

 and do not know of anybody who has had a like experience." The 

 white-headed bird referred to was a mature specimen with pure white 

 head and tail, and large yellow beak, the young bird was full sized, a 

 large powerful bird, possibly over a year old, the bill horn coloured, and 

 the head and tail washed and blotched with a dirty greyish white, the 

 markings from the head extending some distance down the middle of 

 the back below the usual termination of the neck marking. 



Mr. Lee was of the opinion that all five birds were of the same 

 family, i.e. two old birds and three youngones. — J AMES R. THURSTON. 



