THE OTTAWA NATURALIST 



PuBUSHEO iY The Ottawa Field-Naturausts' Club 

 Ottawa, Ont. 



Editor : 



Arthur Gibson. 



Entomological Branch, Department of 



Agriculture, Ottawa. 



Associate Editors: 

 Harlan I. Smith - - Anthropology. P. A. Taverner - - - Ornithology. 



M. O. Malte ... - Botany. L. M. Lambe - - - Palaeontology. 



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



Secretary : Treasurer : 



Clyde L. Patch. F. W. Waugh, 



Geological Survey. Geological Survey. 



CONTENTS 



Pace 



Eskimo Food How it Tastes to a White Man. By Rudolph Martin Anderson 59 



The Location of Towns and Villages in the Ottawa Valley. By J. Keele 65 



The Genus Vespa in Canada. By F. W. L. Sladen ' 



The Lotus Lily of Saint Williams. By A. H. Richardson 73 



Oriole Instinct. By J. A. Munro 74 



German Biology. By P. A. Taverner 75 



Notes and Observations: 



Elxcursion of the Vancouver Natural History Society. J. D 76 



Transformations. M. E. C 76 



Another Record of the Rough-winged Swallow near Ottawa, Ont. Clyde L. Patch 77 



An Episode with the Virginia Rail. W. E. Saunders :. 77 



Book Notices: 



In Audubon's Labrador 78 



Further Notes and Observations on the Birds of Hatley, Stanstead County, Quebec-- 78 



Forty-eighth Annual Report of the Entomological Society of Ontario, 1917 78 



Obituary : 



Charles K. Dodge 78 



THE OTTAWA NATURALIST, established thirty-one years ago, "to publish the 

 results of original research or investigation in all departments of natural history," is issued monthly 

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 Mr. F. W. Waugh, Geological Survey, Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa. 



