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H. H. T. Jackson A Ccntrib. to the Nat. Hist, of 

 the Amphipcd Hyalella I^nickerbockcn (Bate); 

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 p. 49-60. 



A. E. Ortman Malacostraca (Higher Crustace- 

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 p. 490-501. 



O. P. Hay Notes en some Freshwater Crustacea, 

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P. R. Hoy Deep-water fauna of Lake Michigan ; 

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G. C. Embody Distribution, Food and Reproduc- 

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POSTSCRIPT. 



The summer of 1920, I spent in J.imes Bay, and 

 along the east side of Hudson Bay to beyond lat. 

 56^ N. No phyllopods nor isopods were found in 

 freshwater, and amphipods only in James Bay, at the 

 following places: 



Gammarus limnaeus in creek-pools on the south- 

 east side of Charlton Island, September 26 and 22. 



H^alella f(nicf(erbocl(eri in creek-pcols in the in- 

 terior of Charlton Island (south-end), July 17 and 

 September 22; and in ponds at Moose Factory 

 (field), July to October, and on Cape Hope Islands 

 (about lat. 5214 N.), September 13. 



All occurred in great numbers. Those secured 

 at Moose Factory in July, comprised greenish males 

 and yellow-brown, egg-bearing females, in copula- 

 tion, besides pale, newborn ones. 



CHANGES IN THE STATUS OF CERTAIN BIRDS IN THE VICINITY OF 



QUEBEC, P.Q. 



By Harrison F. Lewis. 



In the year 1906, Mr. C. E. Dionne published his 

 well-known work, "Les Oiseau.x de la Province 

 de Quebec," in which, besides noting the distribu- 

 tion of the species of birds in Quebec Province, he 

 stated particularly the status of the different species 

 in the neighborhood of Quebec City, where the 

 greater part of his own field work had been done. 

 The area to which these local records refer is vari- 

 ously designated by Mr. Dionne as "pres de Que- 

 bec," "dans les environs de Quebec," or "dans 

 Quebec," and is defined by him (footnote (1), page 

 20) as "within a radius of five or six leagues of 

 Quebec, unless otherwise indicated." Since the 

 publication of this book, Mr. Dionne has been able 

 to do comparatively little field-work in this area. 



Since July, 1918, I have been resident at Berger- 

 ville, parish of St. Colomb de Sillery, in the suburbs 

 of Quebec, and have done such field work (chiefly 

 in 1919 and 1920) in the vicinity of the city as my 

 other duties have permitted. This work has made 

 clear the fact that, in the fourteen years since 1906, 



the status of a number of bird species in the area 

 defined by Mr. Dionne as referred to above has 

 changed markedly. There is little doubt that most, 

 if not all, of such changes which I have noted are 

 actual, since Mr. Dionne frequently visited in his 

 work the vicinity of Bergerville and Gomin Wood, 

 where most of my work has been done, although he 

 went even more often to areas northward from Que- 

 bec City, where my observations have been occa- 

 sional only. The majority of my notes relate to land 

 birds; opportunities for observing water birds in the 

 neighborhood where I am resident are very limited. 

 In order to keep the record of birds of the Quebec 

 area as accurately up-to-date as possible, and in or- 

 der to render readily available some local details 

 of the general avifaunal changes taking place in 

 northeastern North America during the period 1906- 

 1920, I have prepared this paper. A similar paper 

 by Mr. L. McI. Terrill, dealing with the vicinity 

 of Montreal ('Ottawa Nat.', Vol. XXV, No. 4, 

 pp. 57-63, July, 1911), furnished me with the 



