MAY, 1909 



VOL. XXm, No. 2 



THE 



OTTAWA 

 N ATURA LIST 



Published by The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. 



:601tor: 



ARTHUR GIBSON, 

 Central Experimental Farm, 

 OTTAWA. 



Associate jEOitocs: 



Dr. H. M. Ami, Geology. Prof. E. E. Prince, W. T. Macoun, Botany. 



Dr. J. F. Whiteaves, ^ ^ ^ oo ogy. r ^^ q^^^^^ ^ j^ 



Palceontology. ^^^- ^- ^'^^oimthology ^"^"''^ ^'"^>'- 



Hon. F. R. Latchford, W. H. Harrington, A. McNeill, Meteorology. 

 Conchology. Entomology. 



CONTENTS: 



A Canadian Stepheoceras. By J. F. Whiteaves. - - - 21 



How the English Sparrow is adapting itself to new conditions of 



life. By Norman Criddle. 23 



The Forest Reserves -- 25 



Report of the Entomological Branch, 1908 - - - - 28 



Book Review: Annual Report of the Entomological Society of 



Ontario for 1908 31 



Obituary: The Late Rev. Canon Burman, B.D. - - - 32 



Meetings of Botanical Branch - ^^ 



Canadian Species of Thalictrum II. By Edward L. Greene. - 37 



The Fletcher Memorial Fund. 



40 





Copeland-Chatterson-Crain Limited 



ISSUED MAY 28. 1909. >'q^ XO" ^\ 'O' 



Entered at tK* Ottawa Pott Offict as seeorvd clasa matte*. (Llli^ARY] 31 



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