1913] The Ottawa Naturalist. 143 



one reported south of the Georgian Bay, although in the east 

 it is stated, in Macoun's "Birds of Canada," that several nests 

 were found by the Rev. C. J. Young, in Leeds County, and one 

 was shot by Mr. Spreadborough at Cache Lake, Algonquin Park, 

 in July, 1910. These are the only records I can locate at present 

 with regard to the nesting of this bird in the longitude of Ontario, 

 which goes to show that our knowledge of the northern distribu- 

 tion of a few of our migrants is, as yet, very incomplete. 



W. E. Saunders. 



ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF VANCOUVER ISLAND.* 



By J. M. Macoun, Assistant Naturalist, 

 Geological Survey of Canada. 



For nearly twenty years after the publication of Part V 

 of the Catalogue of Canadian Plants, in 1890, very little system- 

 atic botanical work was done on Vancouver Island, except in 

 1893 when Prof. John Macoun spent the collecting season there. 

 Notes on the new species and additions to the flora of Vancouver 

 Island made in that year were published in "Contributions from 

 the Herbarium of the Geological Survey," printed in the Canadian 

 Record of Science and The Ottawa Naturalist. 



The need of a thorough study of the flora of Vancouver 

 Island was so pressing that in 1908 Prof. John Macoun was 

 instructed to undertake it, and that year he worked in the 

 vicinity of Victoria and north to Nanaimo, and the following 

 season, 1909, on the west coast, chiefly about Ucluelet. He was 

 assisted both years by Mr. William Spreadborough, who had 

 also collected at Nootka in 1906. Prof. Macoun, being otherwise 

 employed in 1910 and 1911, Mr. Spreadborough continued the 

 work of collecting in these years, spending part of the season 

 of 1910 on Queen Charlotte Islands and part of 1911 in the 

 interior of Vancouver Island. In 1912 both the writer and 

 Prof. Macoun collected on Vancouver Island, the former on 

 the islands in the Gulf of Georgia and in Strathcona Park, the 

 latter chiefly in the vicinity of Sidney. The manuscript for a 

 floraof Vancouver Island is now almost ready for the press, but so 

 many additions to the known flora have been made in the years 

 referred to and so many are now interested in the Vancouver 

 Island flora that it seems advisable to publish for their informa- 

 tion a preliminary list of the additions that have been made to 

 the flora in recent years. Where not otherwise stated, all the 



*Published by permission of the Director of the Geological Survey. 



