Ontario Bird Notes. — Gavia arctica. Black-throated Loon.—A 
female was taken on May 22, 1899, off Mimico (a suburb of Toronto), in 
Lake Ontario. The bird is in immature plumage, slightly abraded; the 
only previous record for Toronto is that of a pair sent to the Paris Exhibi¬ 
tion of 1867. Co “~' 
Auk, XVII, April, 1900, p', t?6- 
Birds of Toronto, Ontario. 
By James K.Fleming. 
Pt.I, Water Birds. 
Hypothetical List. 
Auk, XXIII, Oct., 1906, p.452 
Hypothetical List. 
1. Gavia arctica. Black-throated Loon. — I recorded 3 a speci¬ 
men in error; it proves to be a very small Loon, in winter plumage A 
pair are mentioned in Prof. Hincks’s list of birds sent to Paris. 4 
3 Auk, XVII, 1900. 176. 
4 ‘Catalogue of Birds Known to Inhabit Western Canada. By the Rev. W. Hincks, 
F. L. S., &c.’ Journal of the Board of Arts and Manufactures for Upper Canada, 
VII, 1867, 9-12 (also reprinted as a separate). This list was prepared in view of 
sending a collection of birds to the Paris Exhibition of 1867; it contains two hundred 
and seventy-one species, of which twenty-nine were not obtainable. By ‘Western 
Canada’ is meant Ontario, but the birds sent were with few exceptions taken at 
Toronto. 
