MARCH, 1912 



VOL. XXV, Bo. 12 



THE 



OTTAWA 

 N ATURA LIST 



Published by The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. 



Editor: 



ARTHUR GIBSON, 



Cbktral Exfbrimbntal Faru, 



OTTAWA. 



Associate Mtore ; 



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



Botany. Geology Ornithology 



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



Conchology Meteorology. P alaontology . 



W T . H. Harrington, J. W. Gibson, M.A. Prof. E. E. Princb, 



Entomology. Nature Study. Zoology. 



CONTENTS: 



Final Report of the James Fletcher Memorial Committee. - - 173 



Passenger Pigeon Investigation. ------- 174 



Drinking Water and Health. By Frank T. Shutt. - - - 176 



The Identity of the better known Midge Galls. By E. P. Felt. - 181 



The Gray or Arkansas King Bird. By H. M. Speechly. - - 188 



Notes Conchological and otherwise. ------ 189 



Portrait of the late Dr. James Fletcher. ----- 190 



Index to the Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. XXV, 1911-12. - - - 191 



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