THE OnAWA FIELD-NATURALISTS' CLUB 



President: M. Y. WiLLlAMS 

 Vice-Presidents: L. D. BuRLING; R. M. ANDERSON 



Secretarjf : 



Clyde L. Patch 



(Geological Survey) 



Treasurer : 



C. B. HUTCHINGS 

 (Entomological Branch 

 Dept. Agriculture.) 



Additional Members of Council: HoYES Lloyd; W. T. Macoun; G. A. MiLLER; MiSS M. 

 E. Cowan; C. B. Hutchings; C. M. Sternberg; H. I. Smith; F. W. Waugh; 

 P. A. Taverner; E. Sapir; E. M. Kindle; W. J. Wintemberg; R. E. Delury; 



F. Johansen. 



THE CANADIAN FIELD-NATURALIST 



E. Sapir 



M. O. Malte 



F. R. Latchford 



M. Y. WlLUAMS 



Editor : 



Arthur Gibson, 



Entomological Branch, Department of 



Agriculture, Ottawa. 



Associate Editors: 



Anthropology A. G. Huntsman 



Botany P. A. Taverner 



Conchology E. M. Kindle 



Geology R. M. Anderson 



Marine Biology. 



Ornithology 



Palaeontology 



Zoology 



CONTENTS. 



Birds and How to Attract Them About Our Fiomes. By J. C. Middleton 81 



Notes on the Summer Birds of Gaspe Peninsula. By C. W. Townsend 87 



The Diving Habit and Community Spirit of the Spotted Sandpiper. By H. Mousley 96 



Winter Bird List from London, Ont. By E. M. S. Dale : 97 



Notes and Observations : 



A 1919 Christmas Census for Toronto and Ottawa. H. Lloyd 



Teaching Bird Protection by Motion Pictures. H. Lloyd 



Hudsonian Chicadct. Mrs. E. Cassels 



The Starling in Canada. P. A. Taverner . !_ 



How a Young Puppy Avoided Starvation. E. J. Whittaker 



A Spider new to Canada. A. B. Klugh 



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THE CANADIAN FIELD-NATURALIST, lately The Ottawa Naturalist, estab- 

 lished thirty-two years ago, "to publish the results of original research or investigation in aB 

 <lq>artments of natural history," is issued monthly, excepting for the months of June, July and* 

 August. 



Papers, notes and photographs should be addressed to the Editor. Manuscript should be 

 tj^ewritten. 



Subscriptions should be sent to the Treasurer, Mr. C. B. Hutchings, Entomological Branch, 

 Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. The price of this volume is $1.50; singe copies, 20 cents. 



