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woodpeckers, tree sparrows, etc., little or nothing was to be 

 seen. Even the brown creepers were very scarce. None what- 

 ever of our irregular winter visitants from the North arrived, 

 such as snowflakes, pine grosbeaks and redpolls, while on the 

 other hand, none of our irregular winter residents, such as gold- 

 finches and pine siskins stayed, although early in January a few 

 bands of cedar waxwings and golden-crowned kinglets were 

 noticed. The migrations from the south so far this spring have 

 been very irregular. As a rule robins, bronzed grackles and 

 song sparrows arrive about the 15th to 20th of March, followed 

 a few days later by bluebirds. The first indications of the spring 

 movement were large bands of crows arriving on March 7th, the 

 first I had seen this year. On March 12th robins arrived in some 

 numbers, and I saw and heard one bronzed grackle, but not 

 having seen any since think it must have travelled here with 

 the robins. On March 14th a flock of three kildeer were sporting 

 along the Grand River, which is very early for this bird. Tree 

 sparrows are now giving song, but song sparrows and bluebirds 

 have not arrived to my knowledge. To-day I saw a fine specimen 

 of the great horned owl. We have still a depth of 20 inches of 

 snowin the shelteredlevel woods asmeasuredinmanvplacesto-day. 

 Gait, Ont., March 22nd, 1908. W. HERRIOT. 



COUNCIL MEETINGS. 



A meeting of the Council was held on February 25th in 

 the Normal School. Members present: the President, Mr. W. J. 

 Wilson, Messrs. A. E. Attwood, A. Halkett, A. Gibson, E. E. 

 Lemieux, H. H. Pitts, andT. E. Clarke; Rev. G. Eifrig, Miss A. L. 

 Matthews, and Miss I. Ritchie. 



Two ordinary members were elected, Mr. E. P. Venables, of 

 Vernon, B.C., and Mr. F. W. Jacombe,M.A., M.F., Ottawa. 



The Secretary presented a letter from the newly-formed 

 Natural History Society of Edmonton, asking for any sugges- 

 tions the Ottaw^a Field-Naturalists' Club might be able to offer 

 to a new organization. This led Mr. Eifrig to suggest that we, 

 ourselves, might with profit make a distinction between members 

 of the Club and subscribers to The Ottawa Naturalist. 

 Several arguments were advanced for and against this plan, but 

 no action was taken. 



The Treasurer was instructed to notify delinquent members 

 that names of those in arrears for more than two years would 

 be struck off the lists. 



Mr. Halkett was appointed to write a descriptive article 

 on The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club for publication in the 

 Saturday edition of one of the local papers. 



The last Council meeting for the Club year 1907-08 was held 

 on March 10th in the Normal School. The members in attend- 



