THE OTTAWA FIELD-NATURALISTS' CLUB 



President: M. Y. WiLLIAMS 

 Vice-Presidents: L. D. BuRUNG; P. A. Taverner 



Secretary : Treasurer : 



Miss E. B. Crampe 

 Clyde L. Patch (Research Station, 



(Geological Survey) Dept. Agriculture, 



Hull, Que.) 



Additional' Members of Council: HoYES Lloyd; W. T. Macoun; G. A. Miller; R. 

 M. Anderson; Miss M. E. Cowan; C. B. Hutchings; C. M. Sternberg; H. L 

 Smith; H. McGillivray; F. W. Waugh. 



THE CANADIAN FIELD-NATURALIST 



Editor: 



Arthur Gibson, 



Entomological Branch, Department of 



Agriculture, Ottawa. 



Associate Editors: 



E. Sapir - - Anthropology P. A. Taverner - - - Ornithology 



M. O. Malte - - Botany E. M. Kindle - - . Palaeontology 



M. Y. Wiluams - - Geology R. M. Anderson - - - - Zoology 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Champlain's Astrolabe. By Charles Macnamara 103 



Birds of Northern Saskatchewan and Northern Manitoba Collected in 1914 by Capt. 



Angus Buchanan. By J. Hj Fleming 109 



Random Botanical Notes IIL Isle-aux-Coudres, Que. By Bro. M. Victorin 114 



Notes and Observations: 



Breeding of Mourning Dove near Ottawa, Ont. R. M. Anderson 117 



Bachman's Sparrow an Addition to the Canadian Fauna. W. E. Saunders 118 



The Status of Bewick's Wren in Ontario. W. E. Saunders 118 



Index to Volume XXXIII 1 19 



THE CANADIAN FIELD^NATURALIST,, lately The Ottawa Naturaust. etab. 

 lished thirty-two years ago, "to publish the results of original research or investigation in aU 

 departments of natural history," is issued monthly, excepting for the months of June, July and 

 August. 



Papers, notes and photographs should be addressed to the Editor. 



Subscriptions should be sent to the Treasurer, Miss E. B. Crampe, Research Station, 

 Department of Agriculture, Hull, Que. 



