THE 



JANUARY, 1912 



VOL. XXV, No. 10 



OTTAWA 

 NATURALIST 



Published by The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. 



EOftOt: 



ARTHUR GIBSON, 

 Central Experimental Farm. 

 OTTAWA. 



Jleeoctate Bolters : 



W. T. Macoun, P. E. Raymond, Ph.D. Miss M. F. Fortier, 



Botany. Geology. Ornithology. 



Prof. John Macoun, M. A. Otto Klotz, LL.D. L. M.Lambe, F.G.S., 



Conchology. Meteorology. Palaeontology. 



W. H. Harrington, J. W. Gibson, M.A: Prof. E. E. Prince, 



Entomology. Nature Study. Zoology. 



CONTENTS: 



Popular Entomology. The Engraver Beetles, (Family Ipidae). 



By J. M. Swaine. ------ - - 141 



Accessions to Canadian Botany. By Edward L. Greene- - 145 



Popular and Practical Ornithology, II. The Marsh Hawk. 



By Norman Criddle - - - - 147 



The Status and Development of Canadian Archaeology. 161 



The Yellow Breasted Chat and the Carolina Wren in Ontario. 



By W. E. Saunders - - 152 



Gossamer Spiders. By Charles Macnamara - 153 



Book Notice: New England Trees in Winter. - - - 155 



Notes; Fish Culture in Canada ; Forestry Convention - - - 156 



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