CHAPTER XVI. 



NOTES. 



IT may be useful to give here a few notes that have 

 been made by members of the A. A., partly to show 

 what sort of work is being done, and partly to furnish 

 a suggestion to new members of what they can do. 

 These notes, as well as most of the letters from chap- 

 ters and friends already given, are taken nearly at ran- 

 dom from our monthly reports that have appeared in 

 The Swiss Cross. Those wishing a full knowledge of 

 our work, must refer to the numbers of that magazine 

 since January, 1887. 



BIRDS OF PICTOU, NOVA SCOTIA. 



I send you a list of the birds which I found and identified last 

 year in Pictou. I found them all, the duck excepted, within a 

 space of not more than thirty acres around Cliff Cottage. 



WILLIE SHERATON, Cor. Mem. Chapter i. 



STRAY PELICANS. 



A neighbor was out with a lantern on every dark and foggy 

 evening, when several pelicans flew against him, nearly knocking 

 him over. They were evidently lost, and so bewildered that eight 

 of them were easily captured, and, even then, the remainder of 

 the large flock would not leave so long as the light was visible. I 

 think they were the common white American pelican. 



JESSE FRENCH, Sec. Chapter 432, 



Grand Rapids, La Moure Co., Dakota. 



BEES AND PETUNIAS. 



After watching bumble-bees for the whole summer, I have never 

 yet seen one enter the tube of the petunia. Instead of this they 



