THE OHAWA FIELD-NATURALISTS' CLUB 



President: M. Y. WiLLlAMS 

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



Secretary) : 

 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. WiLUAMS 



Editor : 



Arthur Gibson, 



EIntomoIogiceJ Branch, Department of 



Agriculture, Ottawa. 



Associate Editors: 



Anthropology A. G. Huntsman 



Botany P. A. Taverner 



Conchology E. M. KlNDLE 



Ctology R. M. Anderson 



Marine Biology. 



Ornithology 



Palaeontology 



Zoology 



CONTENTS. 



Among the Coffin -Carriers. By H. F. Lewis 10! 



The Spiders of Canada. By J. H. Emerton 106 



Notes on the Fauna and Flora of East and Middle Sister and North Harbor Islands, Lake 



Erie. By E. W. Calvert 109 



Obituary: John Macoun, 1831-1920 - 110 



Book Review: 



Report of the Second Norwegian Arctic ELxpedition in "Farm," 1898-1902. R. M. 



Anderson . 115 



Notes arid Observations: 



A Pigeon Hawk Winters at Ottawa. H. Lloyd 116 



Birds of the Wilderness of Nova Scotia. H. F. Lewis __; 117 



Prosecutions, Migratory Birds Convention Act and Northwest Game Act 117 



Accessions to the Museum of Geological Survey. P. A. Taverner 117 



The Name of the English Sparrow. P. A. Taverner . 117 



Lantern Slides for Educational Purposes. P. A. Taverner 118 



Bird Migration. A. B. Klugh 118 



A Doped Buttei-fly. A. B. Klugh 119 



Morchella Bispora in Canada. H. T. Gussow; A. B. Klugh 119 



Rusty Black Birds Wintering in Alberta. F. L. Farley 119 



A Unique Entomological Experience. A. B. Klugh 120 



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

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

 d^artments of natural history," is issued monthly, excepting for the nu>nths of June, July and 

 August. 



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

 typewritten. 



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. 



