Notes from Ontario. — In ‘The Auk ’ for October, 1898, I reported the 
finding of the nest and eggs of the Solitary Sandpiper ( Totanus solitarius ) 
on Simcoe Island, Ontario. Since that time careful inquiry has revealed 
the fact that this bird is a constant summer resident about Kingston, and 
that it breeds pretty regularly is probable. This summer I spent a month 
(August) on the Petewawa River, a hundred and fifty miles north of 
Kingston. This river runs through an uninhabited district and rises in 
Algonquin Park, which is reserved by the Ontario Government for the 
protection of game. The whole of the southern branch of the Petewawa 
was investigated, and nearly everywhere the Solitary Sandpiper was 
encountered, singly, and in small flocks, the flocks consisting invariably 
.of two parent birds and this season’s young. On the 4th of August the 
young were more than half grown, and able to fly well. Although the 
Sandpipers were so easily approached in this unfrequented district, that 
it was a simple matter to identify them, still in order to leave no doubt, a 
specimen (adult) was taken from one of the flocks. No Spotted Sand- 
pipers were seen. 
The Petewawa district is extremely rich in Warblers, many of the rarer 
ones undoubtedly breeding there, but among the common birds it was 
interesting to find the Maryland Yellow-throat. A brood of Hermit 
Thrushes was seen, and the Great Horned Owl was extremely common. 
Near Renfrew, ninety miles north of Kingston, Bartramian Sandpipers 
( Bartramia longicauda) were noted in the fields. I have now traced this 
bird in Eastern Ontario over a region nearly a hundred miles square. 
— C. K. Clarke, M. D., Rockzvood Hospital^ Kingsto?i , Ontario. 
Auk, XVIII, Jan., 1901, p, / / z 
