THE OTTAWA FIELD-NATURALISTS' CLUB 



President: R. M. Anderson. 

 1st Vice-President: Hoyes Lloyd. 2nd Vice-President: G. A. Millar. 



Treasurer: 

 Secretary: ^ C. B. Hutchings. 



Clyde L. Patch (Entomological Branch 



(Geological Survey) Dept. Agriculture). 



Additional Members of Council: W. T. Macoun; Miss M. E. Cowan; C. M. Stern- 

 berg; H. I. Smith; F. W. Waugh; P. A. Taverner; E. Sapir; E. M. Kindle; 

 W. J. Wintemberg; R. E. Delury; Arthur Gibson; Norman Criddle; M. 0. 

 Malte; C. H. Snell; Melville Dale; L. McI. Terrill; John Davidson; 

 R. Owen Merriman; H. M. Speechly; Harrison F. Lewis. 



Editor: 



Harrison F. Lewis. 



Dominion Parks Branch 



Dept. of the Interior, Ottawa. 



Associate Editors: 



E. Sapir Anthropology A. G. Huntsman Marine Biology 



M. 0. Malte Botany P. A. Taverner Ornithology 



F. R. Latchford Conchology E. M. Kindle .Palaeontology 



M. Y. Williams Geology R. M. Anderson Zoology 



Arthur Gibson . . . ' Entomology 



CONTENTS. PAGE 



Adventures with the Canada Goose. By P. A. Taverner 81 



The Distribution of the Ottawa Trenton Eehinoderm Faunas. By A. F. Foerste 84 



Wood Rats and Grizzly Bears. By Merle F. Bancroft 87 



Notes on the Water Birds of Lake Newell, Alberta. By J. A. Munro 89 



The Hungarian or European Grey Partridge. By F. Bradshaw 91 



Injudicious Fossil Collecting. By E. J. Whittaker 93 



Prosecutions Reported during the Period, February 15 to May 4, 1922 94 



Notes on Birds in Southwestern Saskatchewan. By L. B. Potter 94 



Notes and Observations: 



Skin Irritation Due to Plant Poisoning. By P. A. Taverner , 95 



Euphyllopod Crustaceans from Canada and Alaska. By Frits Johansen 95 



The Starling in Magog. By F. Napier Smith 96 



Not a Plesiosaur. By C. M. Sternberg -. 97 



Dovekies and Murres Picked Up Dead and Dying. By R. W. Tufts. . , 97 



Cowbird in Nova Scotia. By R. W. Tufts : 98 



Early Nesting of the American Goshawk. By R. W. Tufts 98 



Notes on Some Winter Birds of the Gaspe Peninsula. By Harrison F. Lewis 98 



Bird Notes from St. Thomas, Ontario. By C. E. Johnson 99 



Bird Accidents Caused by Netting. By C. E. Johnson 99 



Horned Larks in a City Garden-plot. By C. E. Johnson 99 



The European Starling at Arnprior, Ont. By Chas. Macnamara 99 



Notes on a Female Nighthawk with Young. By C. E. Johnson 100 



Strange Behaviour of, a Female Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker. By C. Johnson 100 



Parasite in a Salamander. By C. Johnson 100 



THE CANADIAN FIELD-NATURALIST, lately The Ottawa Naturalist, 

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