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The Lynx was probably a year old and full 

 grown, I should judge. He was every bit as tame 

 as a domestic cat, liking to be petted, and purring 

 loudly when pleased. He enjoyed being stroked 

 on the chin, but when he stretched out his fore-legs 

 and expanded his massive paws, one at a time, 

 showing his claws to their full extent, while he was 

 seated on my lap, I sat remarkably still. 



All the dogs of the village ran away at the sight 

 of Tom. E. G. White. 



Cerulean Warbler (Dendroica cerulea) Near 

 Ottawa. On May 14, 1922, as I entered the tall 

 hardwood bush beyond Manotiek, about 22 miles 

 along the Prescott Highway from Ottawa, I heard 

 at a distance of about 80 yards a Warbler's song 

 new to me. I hastened through the woods and 

 found the songster moving about in the tops of 

 high basswood and beech trees. The song was 

 fairly loud and required about three seconds in 

 delivery. It was written down as zee-zee-zee-zee- 

 zee tahr-ree, the five uniform zee's requiring half 

 the time. The tah was lower and the ree higher in 

 pitch than the zee's. As the leaves were not fully 

 developed, I was able to make a thorough observa- 

 tion of the bird with the aid of 8X binoculars. 

 Almost immediately the narrow bar crossing be- 

 tween the pure white throat and the white breast 

 was seen and then the other markings of the Ceru- 

 lean Warbler were observed: the two white wing- 

 bars, the white edging on the tip of the tail, the 

 two or more dark lines down the side under the 

 edge of the wing, a light strip over the eye bounded 

 by a dark line on the edge of the crown, one or more 

 dark lines on the back near the wing, and at times 

 the bluish upper parts were glimpsed especially 

 when, on two occasions, the bird swooped down to 

 lower levels, chasing a Black and White Warbler. 

 With the male were one or two females moving 

 about in the same manner and having the charac- 

 teristics of the female Cerulean as nearly as I could 

 determine. The rarity of the record led me to 

 make a most thorough examination of the bird at 

 intervals for over an hour, at noon in bright sun- 

 light, and the bird sang on during the afternoon in 

 nearly the same part of the woods. The plate by 

 Fuertes in Eaton's Birds of New York depicts the 

 bird as I observed it, while descriptions of the 

 songs quoted by Chapman in his Warblers of North 

 America are very like my remembrances of the 

 song. There can be no doubt about the record 

 new to me, as apparently it is to the Ottawa dis- 

 trict. However, it was a mere accident that I 

 visited this woods, and I cannot but feel that the 

 Cerulean Warbler would be found more frequently 

 if searched for diligently. Ralph E. DeLltry. 



Goldeneye Breeding near Ottawa. ^An adult 

 female Goldeneye with four half-grown young was 

 observed on July 22, 1922, on the Ottawa River, 

 at the edge of the marsh above Cumberland, at a 

 point 16 miles by canoe below Ottawa. The young 

 were closely grouped about the mother, who floated 

 low in the water, hoping to escape detection. As 

 the canoe quietly approached them they increased 

 the speed of their swimming away from the marsh. 

 They were closely observed with the aid of 8X 

 binoculars and were approached to within 100 feet, 

 when the mother with broken squawks plainly told 

 the young to "beat it," and being well schooled, 

 they promptly did so, with wings and feet making 

 good speed away from us and circling back behind 

 us to the marsh. The old bird fluttered above the 

 young, between them and the canoe, squawking 

 signals continuously. The young appeared very 

 dark above, with light edgings on the sides and 

 eyes. The old bird was more closely observed, 

 having the large brown head, short neck, thick 

 dark body, white edging patch on wing and "gold- 

 en" eye. The bill seemed indented above about one- 

 quarter of its length from the tip. It is highly 

 improbable that it could be other than the American 

 Goldeneye. Adult and juvenile American Golden- 

 eye were seen by the writer during August and 

 September, 1903, at Go Home Bay, about 17 miles 

 up Georgian Bay from Penetanguishene. These 

 are the only two instances of the breeding of this 

 species in Ontario that he has observed. Eif rig's 

 1910 list does not note the breeding of the Golden- 

 eye in this district, and apparently the present is 

 the only record of young Goldeneyes for Ottawa, 

 though I understand from Mr. Hoyes Lloyd that 

 a breeding female has been taken.- Ralph E. 

 DeLury. 



Addition to the Flora of Canada. A fruiting 

 specimen of an unknown shrub was sent to the 

 writer in July, 1922, by Mr. G. Fraser of Ucluelet. 

 The plant is Myrica californica, California Myrtle, 

 a relative of the Sweet Gale, Myrica Gale, and, so 

 far as catalogues show, has not been recorded from 

 Canada before. 



Mr. J. W. Thompson, of Tofino, Clayoquot 

 Sound, reports that the shrub was first discovered 

 on his property, about four miles from Tofino, by 

 Mrs. Thomas McBey of Cameron Lake, in Septem- 

 ber, 1920, and that it has a very limited distribution 

 so far as known. 



A good description with illustrations may be 

 found in Sudworth's Forest Trees of the Pacific 

 Slope, p. 209, figs. 83, 84. C. F. Newcombe. 



