AUG.-SEPT. 1913 



VOL. XXVII, Nos. 5 and 6 



THE 



OTTAWA 

 N ATURA LIST 



Published by The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. 



Bettor: 



ARTHUR GIBSON, 



Cbmtral Experimental Farm. 



OTTAWA. 



Associate Bettors : 



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



Anthropology. Entomology. Ornithology. 



M. O. Malte, Ph. D. H. M. Ami, D.Sc. L. M. Lambe F G S 



Bo * an y- Geology. 'Palaeontology. 



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

 Conchology Meteorology. Zoology, 



CONTENTS: 



Description of a new species of Testudo, and of a remarkable specimen 

 of Stylemys nebrascensis, from the Oligocene of Wyoming, U.S.A. 



_ ."-.. By^Lawrence M. Lamb 57 



Is Bartram's Sandpiper disappearing from the Prairies. By F.L. Farley 63 



The Broad-striped Skunk. By Norman and Stuart Criddie. 64 

 Scarcity of Bumble-bee Nests hi the vicinity of Ottawa. 



By F. W. L. Sladen 69 



Correspondence. ---------70 



Nest of Belted Kingfisher. By Andrew Halkett. - - - 70 



Occurrence of the Cotton Moth in Ontario in 1912. By Arthur Gibson 71 



Excursions: Britannia; Aylmer; Stittsville. - - 



The Western Grebe in Ontario. By W. E. Saunders - 



Bird Notes. By L. Mel. Terrill. --.'___ 



The Rolla L. Crain Co., Limited 



ISSUED Sept. 12, 1913. 



Entered at Gtiawa Post Office as second class r-.atte? 



