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noi wander far out to sea. I saw it alight among some other 

 marine fowls which do go a great distance from hind, and at the 

 place there was no land for several hundreds of miles from either 

 the American or Asiatic sides. 



The Double crested Cormorant {P. dilophus) is the only Cana- 

 dian inland species. '1 he young birds lack the side plumes which 

 belong to the adults. The iris is green, a very common colour 

 with Cormorants, but most uncommon among birds in general. 



Fossil remains of a Cormorant [P. macropus) are in the pos- 

 session of Prof. Cope from the Pliocene of Oregon ; and fossil 

 remains of another [P. idahensis), from the Pliocene of Idaho, are in 

 the Yale museum at New Haven, Conn., but when I visited that 

 institution some years ago I was not specially interested in Toti- 

 palmate Birds, so the pleasure of seeing the specimen is in 

 reserve. 



HEMPHILLIA GLANDULOSA. 



A Slug New to the Canadian List. 



By Geo. W. Taylor, Nanaimo, B.C. 



A couple of days ago one of my boys brought in a specimen 

 of H. glmidulosa, which he had found near the banks of the 

 Nanaimo river, about three miles from its mouth. As the species 

 was new to British Columbia and to Canada, I devoted an hour or 

 two this morning to an examination of the spot where the slug 

 had been found, and was rewarded by the capture of eleven other 

 specimens. They were all taken under the dead fronds of ferns 

 [Aspidinm nuniiium) growing in a rather open spot on the banks 

 of the river. 



//. glandnlosa was discovered nearly thirty years ago at 

 Astoria, Oregon, by the indefatigable Henry Hemphill, and was 

 described as the type of a new genus by Bland & Binney in the 

 Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York for 1872. 

 It has since been found at other points in Oregon, and at Chehalis, 

 Olympia and Tacoma, in Washington, but has not been recorded, 

 I think, from any locality outside these two States. A second 

 species of the genus {H. camelus) has however been described 



