THE CANADIAN ^ FIELD-NATURALIST 



PUBUSHED BY ThE OtTAWA FiELD-NaTURAUSTs' ClUB 



Ottawa, Ont. 



E. Sapir 



M. O. Malte 



M. Y. Williams 



Editor : 



Arthur Gibson, 



Eintomological Branch, Department of 



Agriculture, Ottawa. 



Associate Editors: 

 Anthropology P. A, Taverner 



Botany E. M. Kindle 



Geology R. M. Anderson 



Omiiholog}f 



Palaeontology 



Zoology 



Secretary : 

 Clyde L. Patch, 

 Geological Survey. 



Treasurer : 



F. W. Waugh, 



Geological Survey. 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Notes on Canadian Weasels. By J. Dewey Soper 43 



An Unrecognized Subspecies of Melanerpes erythrocephalus. By Harry C. Oberholser 48 



Notes on Some of the Fishes of Alberta and Adjacent Waters. By F. C. Whitehouse 50 



Nesting of the Caspicui Tern in the Georgian Bay. By W. E. Saunders 55 



An Important Distinction Between Our Two Goldeneyes. By P. A. Taverner 57 



The Migratory Birds Convention. By H. F. Lewis 58 



A Rattlesnake, Melano Garter Snakes and Other Reptiles from Point Pelee, Ont. 



By C. L. Patch 60 



Notes and Observations: 



Canada How an Algonquin Country Received an Iroquois Name. Armon 



Burwash 61 



An Ontario Bird Sanctuary. C. Gordon Hewitt 62 



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