50 The Ottawa Naturalist. [July 



deal Club, 34: 1907. pp. 97 and 98. Descriptions of 

 the other new species will appear later. 



Cyathus striatus (Huds.), Hoffm. (a bird's nest fungus). 



Fuligo ovata (Schaeff.), Macbr., or as given in Saccardo 

 Fuligo septica (L.) Gmel. This is one of the interesting 

 M^'xomycetes or slinie-nioulds, an intermediate group 

 of organisms with relationships both to plants and to 

 animals. "In their spore-producing stage," says 

 Underwood {'Moulds, Mildews, and Mushrooms'), 

 "they resemble the fungi, but they are not true fungi. 

 In their vegetative or growing stage the}'^ resemble 

 certain of the protozoans, but the}^ are not true ani- 

 mals." 



Toronto Speciics. 



Sarcoscypha coccinea, Jacq. May, 1907. The common 

 scarlet ctip-fungus found on sticks in woods in early 

 Spring, and sometimxes late in the Fall. 



Coprimis micaceus, Fr. 27th Julv, 1905 (edible). 



Panus stipticus (Bull.\ Fr. IStli October, 1906. 



Claudopus nidulans (Pers.\ Pk. 18th October, 1906. This 

 is Pleurotus nidulans, Pers. 



Psilocybe foenisecii (Pers.), Fr. 13lh July, 1905. 



Galera lateritia albicolor, Pk. 13th Jul3^ 1905. 



Geaster Hmbatus, Fr. (an earth-star), 18th October, 1906; 



Fuligo ovata ^Schaeff .) Mackr. 1 8th October, 1 906. 



NFW BRUNSWICK FLYCATCHERS. 



By Wm. H. Moore, Scotch Lake, N.B. 



We have many species of fly catching birds in this Maritime 

 Province, but in this paper we will deal only with the members 

 of the family Tyrannidae that occur here. Should we have the 

 specimens in hand, we find that the bill is broad and depressed 

 at the base, and about it grows a number of bristly feathers which 

 serve to assist in capturing insects, and to restrain the struggles 

 of captives. The number of primiaries are ten, the first of which 

 is long. There are twelve rectrices, or tail feathers, and the hind 

 claw will be found not smaller than the middle claw. 



With some field practice one is enabled to recognize fly- 

 catchers from their habit of sitting upon some prominent perch 

 as they await the passing of some insect that thev desire to add 

 to their bill of fare, then rapidly darting forth to seize the prey 

 and often returning to the same perch . 



