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abortivus) ; butter-cup, (Ranunculus acris) ; white baneberry, 

 (Actueu alba); blue cohosh, long past its flowering stage; wild 

 ginger; red osier dogwood; wild sarsaparilla, not yet in bloom, 

 roots aromatic ; we saw bushes of the wild gooseberry and wild 

 black-currant, but the fruit was still too green to be edible. The 

 Heath family was represented only by some few pyrolas. 



After a delightful afternoon, and a refreshing drink of pure 

 water, we returned to the city, and felt better fitted for our 

 duties by this excursion with the Naturalists. 



ANNIE L. MATTHEWS. 



RECORDS OF RARE BIRDS IN THE MARITIME PROVINCES. 



I take pleasure in recording the capture cf three interesting 

 birds. February nth, 1905. at Argyle Shore, Prince Edward Is- 

 land. An albino white-winged female crossbill was secured from a 

 flock of about twenty properly colored birds of the same species, 

 by a Mr. A. F. Calder, of Charlottetown, P. E. I. The specimen 

 is somewhat ashy-white about head and neck, gradually shading 

 to white upon the tail and under parts. The white wing-bars 

 are scarcely perceptible. The specimen is nicely preserved and 

 is now in the possession of the writer. 



Another rarity from P.E.I, is a little brown crane (Grus 

 Canadensis) taken at Alexander. This bird was a young female, 

 secured Sept. 22, 1905, and is now in museum of Colchester 

 Academy, Truro, N. S. This is probably the only record of a 

 bird of this species being taken east of Manitoba, except one 

 secured in Greenland, as recorded by J. Macoun in his "Cata- 

 logue of Canadian Birds." Near Fredericton, N. B., a great 

 gray owl (Scotiaptex nebulosa) was secured March 22, '06. This 

 specimen was a beautiful female and measured twenty-six inches 

 in length and an alar extent of sixty inches, yet its entire weight 

 was only two pounds. The stomach and intestines were empty 

 and the body was in an emaciated condition. The specimen is 

 in the writer's collection. 



WM. H. MOORE, 

 Scotch lake, York Co., N.B. 



