Nelson's Sparrow [Ammodramus nelsoni ) at Toronto, Ontario. On 
the 22d of September, 1894, whilst I was Snipe shooting near Toronto, I 
noticed several small Sparrows, flitting out of the rushes before my dogs, 
whose manner of flight was new to me. Two of these X shot and found 
them to be of this species, — the first I had ever seen or heard of in the 
Province. During the remainder of that autumn I kept a sharp look- 
out for them but saw no more. 
On the 10th of June, 1895, I saw a small bird flying up the shore of 
Lake Ontario from east to west ; it was then about thirty yards high, but 
as it neared the marsh at the eastern end of Ashbridge’s Bay, it gradually 
lowered as if intending to alight. However, I killed it. This was a 
female with ova about as large as No. 12 shot; in the autumn of that 
year I saw only two others though I watched for them carefully. 
In 1896 I saw only one and that was on the 28th of October. This 
bird was in a marsh about three miles from where I have seen all the 
others. 
During the autumn of 1897 none appeared until the 9th of October; 
from that date until the 29th one or more were seen every day but they 
never became common. 
In the autumn of 1898 the first appeared on the 23d of September, 
when I saw one ; on the 24th several were seen, and from that time until 
the first of October they were quite common ; on some days I must have 
seen fifty or sixty of them. 
They frequent just one spot in the marsh and are, owing to their secre- 
tive habits, rather difficult to find; when driven out of one clump of 
rushes they fly a few yards and drop into another, which affords them 
perfect concealment. I have not yet heard one of them utter a call note 
or a chirp of any kind. 
Since I first saw them I have looked for them continually through the 
spring and summer months, but with the exception of the female taken 
on the 10th of June, 1895, I have failed to find any. — C. W. Nash, 
T oronto, Canada. Auk, XVI, July, 1899 , p. *77 
October 28, 1896. 4 
4 Auk, XVI, 1899, 277. 
