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Toronto, Oct. 18
2:10. - In Queens Park, sitting in settle;
warm! Have walked north along University
Avenue from our Hotel York Royal. West
wind, dry; autumn leaves (maple, oak, etc.),
brown, herded along in droves, sometimes
swirls - mob-psychology, many individuals
in one direction; but different "mobs" along
different courses, - sometimes converse,
sometimes apart. Never saw such
accretion of autumn leaves before!
Mrs. G. spots 4 Golden-crowned Kinglets in
her shrubbery, leafless, under large trees
between much-travelled paths. Otherwise
only English Sparrows - many! [This morning
from the train as it entered the city, we
saw a European Starling in flight over the
buildings.]
3:30. - On the Zoology floor of the Royal
Ontario Museum, in Queens Park. Viewing
the special A.O.U. exhibit: of Brooks drawings,
and of books of Gilbert White - many
editions, including the first. Also, a
selection of late N. Am. bird literature; and
a collection of bird and mammal
specimens appropriately labeled (with
quotations from White's "Natural History
of Selborne"), from vicinity of Selborne,
England. These were collected chiefly
by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, and are from
the J.H. Fleming collection.