THE OTTAWA FIELD-NATURALISTS' CLUB 



President: R. M. Anderson 

 /$/ Vice President: Hoyes Lloyd 2nd Vice President: G. A. Millar 



Treasurer: 

 Secretary: C. B. Hutchings 



Clyde L. Patch (Entomological Branch 



(Geological Survey) Dept. Agriculture.) 



Additional Members of Council: W. T. Macoun; Miss M. E. Cowan; C. M. 

 Sternberg; H. I. Smith; F. W. Waugh; P. A. Taverner; E. Sapir; 

 E. M. Kindle; W. J. Wintemberg; R. E. Delury; Arthur Gibson; 



Norman Criddle 



THE CANADIAN FIELD-NATURALIST 



E. Sapir - - 

 M. O. Malte - 



F. R. Latchford 

 M. Y. .^Williams 



Editor: 

 D. Jenness 

 Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa 



Associate Editors: 



- Anthropology A. G. Huntsman 



- - Botany P. A. Taverner 



- - Conchology E. M. Kindle - 

 - Geology R. M. Anderson 

 Arthur Gibson Entomology 



Marine Biology 



- Ornithology 



- Palaeontology 



- Zoology 



OONTENTS, 



* Pagre 



Biota of a Sand Spit in Lake Winnipeg. Bj^ C. H. O'Donoghue, D. Sc, F. Z. S 121 



A Faii-y- Shrimp New to Canada and Western North America. By F. Johansen . . laz 



Birds that are Little Known in Manitoba. By N. Criddle 133 



Lessons Learned from a Tame Sparrow Hawk. By P. A. Taverner 135 



Notes and Observations: 



Unusual Migration Records in the Vicinity of Montreal. By L. Mc I. Terrill 140 



A Pine Siskin Invasion. By F,. L. Farley .' 141 



Some Mosses from Boskung. By W. Kirkconnell 142 



Birds as Foster Parents. By Oliver Traff ord 142 



White-Rumped Sandpiper at Ottawa. By P. F. Foran 143 



THE CANADIAN FIELD-NATURALIST, lately The Ottawa Natura- 

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