The Summer Tanager , (. Pyranga cestiva ) in New Brunswick. — 
While staying at Grand Manan. N. B., in June, last year, I saw in the pos- 
session of Mr. J. F. C. Moses a Summer Tanager which’ had been taken 
there a few weeks before. It was shot at North Head, Grand Manan, 
about the 12th or 14th of May, 1881, by a boy who brought it in the flesh 
to Mr. Moses, by whom it was mounted. The bird — which was undoubt- 
edly a male, though dissection had been neglected — was in full plumage, 
and showed no signs of previous captivity. Indeed in that thinly settled 
region the capture of an escaped cage bird would be an unlikely event. 
The specimen is now in the collection of Mr. George A. Boardman. 
This adds another case to the list of southern birds that have occasion- 
ally found their way to the neighborhood of the Bay of Fundy. The 
causes of their coming still remain hidden, and more light is needed 
before the facts can be satisfactorily explained. — Charles F. Batchel- 
der, Cambridge , Mass. Suli, N.Q.C, 7, Oct, X882 ,d, XHl 
On the mountain above the water work’s reservoir is a clump of mixed 
bush near which lives an old man who knows the birds thoroughly. He 
has often told me of a season long ago when a number of red birds bred 
there which had not the black wings and tail of the Scarlet Tanager. I 
have looked at this bush with interest ever since, and on May 20, this 
year, as I was scrutinizing a group of Tanagers leisurely sunning them- 
selves among the topmost branches of a tall elm, I noticed one differ- 
ent in plumage from the others. In bringing it down I was greatly 
pleased to find a fine female of the Summer Redbird ( Pyranga cestiva), 
this being the first record of the species for Canada, so far as I am aware. 
I think I have also seen the Connecticut Warbler but without actual 
measurement it is difficult to distinguish between it and the Mourning 
Warbler. — Thomas McIlwraith, Hamilton, Ontario. 
Auk, I, Oct. , 1884. P. 3 ^ 0 . 
OroithologicalTrip to St. Bruno.P. Q. 
May 25 , 1885 . E. D. Wintle, Montreal. 
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Piranga rubra. Summer Tanager.— “One specimen taken at 
, Heights, near Toronto, by Mr. Herring, in May 1890.” 1 This 
Summer Tanager. Saw one for a few seconds 
when it disappeared most mysteriously, and I did 
Summer Tanager. 
manga iuuia. ~ * . onA 
Scarboro Heights, near Toronto, by Mr. Herring, m May 1890. 
specimen is now in the museum of the Geological Survey at Otta 
in the museum of the Geological Survey at Ottawa. 
not see it again. 
O.a, O. XI. May. 1886 . p. 
1 Macoun, Catalogue of Canadian Birds, 537. 
The Third Specimen of the Summer Tanager for Canada. — On May 7, 
while Messrs. J. S. Wallace and B. H. Swales were searching the end of 
Point Pelee for migrants, Mr. Wallace found a female summer Tanager 
(Piranga rubra) sitting quietly on a tangle of grape vines growing over 
some low trees. The bird was immediately shot and is now in the collec- 
tion of Mr. P. A. Taverner, Detroit. Two other specimens have occurred 
in Ontario one seen near Hamilton in May, 1885 (McIlwraith, Birds of 
Ontario, p. 335), the other taken near Toronto in May, 1890, and now in 
the National Collection of the Geological Survey of Canada. 
From the same locality I received in mid April a male Mockingbird which 
had been taken by Mr. Albert Gardiner. This is the second specimen of 
this species that has come from Point Pelee within three years. — W. E, 
Saunders, London, Ontario. 
