THE BIOLOGICAL REVIEW. 13. 



BLACK RAIL (PORZANA JAMAICENSIS) 

 IN ONTARIO. 



August 18, 1874. — Shot four of these birds this evening in 



the Dundas Marsh ; my dogs put them up where the rushes 



had been mowed. This is the first time I have ever noticed 



them here, but afterwards during this season I saw several 



others. ^ „ r VT 



C. W. Nash. 



YELLOW RAIL {PORZANA NOVEBORACENSIS) 

 IN ONTARIO. 



1874. — During the early autumn of this year I shot several of 

 these birds in the Dundas Marsh, and saw many of them. 



C. W. Nash. 



CISTOTHORUS STELLARIS TAKEN AT TORONTO. 



On the 29th August, 1891, I had the good fortune to capture 

 a specimen of this bird at Toronto ; this is the first, I believe, 

 ever taken in Ontario. 



I found the bird in a field of long, rank grass, a long distance 

 from water or swamp, just east of Toronto. 



C. W. Nash. 



CANADIAN GALLS AND THEIR OCCUPANTS. 

 DIPLOSIS EREGERONI, N. S. 



Galls found on Erigeron canadense, variously situated from 

 base of stem to tips of branches of flowering panicle ; galls 

 irregularly cylindrical, tapering at both ends, spindle-form, those 

 on the branches more or less spherical ; from 1 to 15 galls on a 

 plant, seldom more than 10 ; found usually on diminutive 

 plants, such as grow on wet, sandy places or on high, dry banks. 



As yet I have not found any of these galls on robust plants. 



The galls appear like swellings of the stem or branches, 

 uniform in color with the plant, the surface with feint longitu- 



