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have been in the scrutinizing and addition of records. For 

 instance, the Prairie Warbler, Carohna Wren and others have 

 had notable additions to their Canadian status since the last 

 edition; the Blue-wing Warbler and the Worm-eating Warbler 

 have been added to the Canadian list, by the taking of specimens, 

 and were recorded in the Auk for July, 1908; but when such 

 criticism is offered, one must bear in mind that the list has been 

 in type for a long time, and it niay not have been possible to 

 make these additions since it passed out of the authors' hands. 

 Certainly it is a fact that there is less elasticity in the issuance 

 of Government publications than is usual in the commercial 

 world. 



It is understood that the authors intend to issue an 

 addendum to this list in the present year with the idea of making 

 any corrections and additions that may be necessary to bring 

 the matter thoroughly up to date. If all bird students will keep 

 this matter in view while reading the work, and will make 

 notes on such matters as deserve remarks and later on report 

 these notes to the authors, they will materially assist the work 

 of these gentlemen who have done so much for this branch of 

 natural hist or v. 



W. E. S. 



The Smoky Shrew. Sorex fumeus, the Smoky Shrew, is a 

 small animal that is practically unknown from Ontario. Skilled 

 collectors have taken and recorded a few speciinens to the north 

 and west of Muskoka, and now I wish to record the only two 

 specimens that have been taken in the older part of the province. 

 These were both taken by Mr. John A. Morden, near Hyde Park. 

 One, a female, was trapped on December 9th, 1907, in a sphagnum 

 and spruce swamp, 4 miles west of London. Mr. Morden recogniz- 

 ed the tracks on the snow as being made by an animal new to 

 him . 



The second one was caught by Mr. Morden's cat and dis- 

 carded by that animal, as being useless for her piirpose. The 

 date was April 7th, 1909. and the specimen is a male. 



Both individuals are now in the collection of Mr. J. E. 

 Keays, of this city. He and I have trapped considerably on the 

 very ground on which Mr. Morden's first specimen was taken. 

 This locality is the only place where we have been able to find 

 Synaptomys near London, but we have never succeeded in taking 

 fume us there, although Sorer personatus is usually found in fair 

 numbers, and sometimes appears to be quite common, whereas, 

 through the country generally, it is rare. W. E. Saunders, 

 London, Ont. 



