DECEMBER, 1912 



VOL. XXVI, No. 9 



THE 



OTTAWA 

 N ATURA LIST 



Published by The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. 



BOttOt: 



ARTHUR GIBSON, 



Central Experimental Farm. 

 OTTAWA. 



Associate J601torg : 



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



Anthropology. Entomology. Ornithology. 



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



Botany. Geology. Palaeontology. 



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



Concholngy Meteorology. Zoology. 



CONTENTS: 



On the Nature of the so-called "Covering Plates" in Protopalaeaster 



narrawayi. By Percy E. Raymond. ----- 105 



Note on a ripple-marked Limestone. By E. M. Kindle. - - 108 



Popular Entomology. By J. M. Swaine. ----- 110 



Bird Notes, 1012. 115 



First Record Amaranthus Spinosus L. in Canada. . - 116 



Bee with Pollinia attached to its feet. 116 



A note on the northwestern distribution of the Sugar Maple. By 



O. E. Jennings. _____--- 117 



Book Notices. 118 



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