Records from Toronto. E.E, T. Seton. 
Ruff. Philomachus pugnax. — A specimen of this rare 
straggler was shot on Toronto Island in the spring of 1882 . 
It is now in the possession of Mr. Young of Toronto. The bird 
was mounted in a sealed case, so that accurate measurements 
could not be made, but the general proportions and the large ruff 
were unmistakable. This specimen appears to agree with the 
maximum dimensions given in Coues’s ‘Key.’ The ruft is not 
fully developed, and the face is still feathered. The color is as 
follows : Head, nape, hind-neck, and upper part of ruff gray with 
black pencillings ; wing-coverts and scapulars black with light 
edges ; chin, belly, crissum, and tail-coverts white ; quills dusky ; 
tail-feathers gray with black bars ; throat, breast, and most of ruff 
glossy, greenish black. 
Auk, 2 , Oct, ; 1885« p s S80 
3irds of Toronto, Ontario. 
By James H. Fleming. 
Pt.I, Water Birds. 1 Auk - n isss. 33 6. 
Auk, XXIII, Oct., 1906, p .450 
101. Pavoncella pugnax. Ruff.— A male in full plumage but with 
the face feathered, was taken on Toronto Island in 1882, and is now in the 
museum of the Geological Survey at Ottawa. 7 In ‘Catalogue of Canadian 
Birds,’ Macoun, p. 177, the date is given as 1875, but this is incorrect, and 
the female there recorded is a specimen of the Bartramian Sandpiper. 
