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OCTOBER, 1909 



VOL. XXm, No. 7 



, ,^. OTTAWA 



THE 



OTTAWA 

 NATURALIST 



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Published by The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. 







EOltOt: 



ARTHUR GIBSON, 

 Central Experimental Farm, 

 OTTAWA. 



Hesocfatc EDitors: 



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



Dr. J. F. Whiteaves, p^,^ p t^x^ot.. ^'^ ''^'^' J- W. Gibson. M.A. 



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



Conchology. Entomology. 



CONTENTS: 



Notes from the Herbarium of the Geological Survey of Canada. 



By James M. Macoun - - - - - - - - 121 



Discourses upon the Lepidoptera. I. Variation. By F. H. WoUey- 



Dod. - * - - - - - 122 



Birds of Stony Plain, Alberta. By Sidney S. S. Stansell - - 125 



The So-called White Wild Oats and what they are. By Norman 



Griddle. ---------- 127 



"Snow-worms." By Arthur Gibson ------ 129 



The Tragic Side of Bird Life. By H. Groh. - - - - 131 



Notes on the Birds of Durham, Ont. By W. E. Saunders - - 132 



Personal --- 133 



Book Review ___------- 134 



Oopeland-Chatterson-Crain Limited 



ISSUED OCTOBER 18, 1909. /^ J^ -> m -^\^ V" 



Ontered at the Ottawa Poat Office as aeeond class matter, fi^ j lODADVl^ 



