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collected by the late Major Kennicott. Under the name A. Sitnp- 

 soniana, A. Kennicotti has been recorded by the writer as occuring' 

 on the Ontario shores of lakes Erie and Superior, in lakes Nipigon, 

 Winnipeg- and Manitoba, and in the district of Saskatchewan. Mr. 

 Simpson gives the geographical range oi A. Kennico//i as " upper 

 and middle St. Lawrence River system ; north-west into the Mac- 

 kenzie drainage ", so that its occurrence so far to the north-east- 

 ward as the Ekwan River is of considerable interest. 



Anodonta Wahlamatensis, Lea. In the Revista do Museu 

 Paulista, vol. I, p. 220, San Paulo (Brazil) 1895, Dr. H. von 

 Ihering says that.^. Wahlamatensis, Lea, and /I. Cali/orniensis, 

 Lea, are synonyms of ^. Nuttalliana, Lea, but that A. Oregonensis^ 

 Lea, and A. angulafa. Lea, are ditfereut species. 



Ottawa, May 30th, 1902. 



THE PARULA WARBLER. 



By Robert Elliott, Bryanston, Ont. 



(Read before the Ornithologfical Section of the Entomological Society of 



Ontario.) 



The commonest birds are not always the best known. Ask an 

 ornithologist to describe off hand an American Crow and the 

 chances are that, however used he is to seeing the bird in his walks 

 afield, he has waived the minute points which differentiate this bird 

 from closely allied forms not found here. Now had we a second 

 species of more pointed wing, or of slenderer build, or possessing 

 some slight whitish lines on the neck, how critically would he 

 watch our common crow to distinguish it from its relative ! He 

 would in time know two kinds better than he now knows one. 



Mr. Joseph Beck and L usually working together, have taken 

 in this locality, nine specimens of Lincoln Sparrow. As an almost 

 necessary result, we have become much better acquainted with the 

 Song Sparrow than we were before we became familiar with its 

 congener. 



For several years after I began the study of birds, while my 

 rarer specimens were all preserved, 1 had no collection of my own. 

 That sylvan gem the Parula has passed several times through 



