Field notes: Eastern United States return trip through Canada and Northwest United States, San Diego trip,1916, and second Eastern United States trip "via northwest", v4546
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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.