NOVEMBER, 1908 



VOL. XXn, No. 8 



THE 



OTTAWA 

 NATURALIST 



Published by The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. 



CONTENTS. 



PAOB 



The Importance of Nature Study, with some suggestions as to 



Methods, By J. F. Power, M.A. 145 



Some Bird Habits. By Norman Criddle. - - - - - 153 



Council Meeting. - - 157 



The Cotton-tail Rabbit in Ontario. By J. H. Fleming. - - 158 



Excursions : Central Experimental Farm ; Beaver Meadow 



and Fairy Lake ; McKay's Lake. 168 



Notes : Worm-eating Warbler in Ontario ; Nesting of Bar- 

 tramian Sandpiper; Cypripedium arietinum on Shore of 

 Lake Erie ; Unusual nesting habit of Slate-colored 

 Junco; Extension of the Range of Peronyscus Michi- 

 ganensis; Black-fruited Thorn in Ontario. _ - - 163 



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