AUG.-SEPT., 1912 



VOL. XXVI, Nos. 6 and 6 



THE 



OTTAWA 

 N ATURA LIST 



Published by The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. 



EM tor: 



ARTHUR GIBSON, 



Cbntral Experimental Farm. 



OTTAWA. 



associate Hot tor 6: 



Harlan I. Smith, W. H. Harrington, P. A. Taverner, 



Anthropology. Entomology. Ornithology. 



W. T. Macoun, H. M. Ami, D.Sc. L. M. Lambb, F.G.S., 



Botany. Geology. Palmontology. 



Prof. John Macoun,M A. Otto Klotz, LL.D. C. Gordon Hewitt, D.Sc, 



Conchology Meteorology. Zoology. 



CONTENTS: 



Popular and Practical Ornithology, m. The Upland Plover. By 



Norman Criddle. - - - - - - - - 61 



Excursions ---------- 65 



The occurrence of Ostrea in the Pleistocene Deposits of the vicinity 



of Montreal. By Edward Ardley. 67 



A few days' work and play in Canada. By E. P. Van Duzee. - 68 



Unusual nesting site of the Pigeon Hawk in Newfoundland. By 



W. J. Brown. 70 



Bird Notes. L. Mel. Terrill. 71 



Obituary: Rev. George W. Taylor. 74 



The Rolla L. Grain Co., Limited 



ISSUED SEPT. 24, 1912 





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