262 The Ottawa Naturalist [March 



Mr. Thos. McMillan, Seaforth, Ont. 



Mr. J. A. Munro, Toronto.' 



Hon. Mrs. O. H. Lambart, Ottawa. 



Mr. G. Michaud, Ottawa. 



On request of the Natural History Museum of Hamburg 

 it was decided to exchange publications with the Museum. 



The Publishing Committee were requested to report at the 

 next meeting of Council on the state of that portion of the 

 Library now stored in the basement of the Normal School and 

 to make some recommendation as to what should be done with 

 it. 



February 9th — Present: the President, Mr. A. E. Attwood, 

 Messrs. A. Halkett, A. Gibson, C. H. Young, E. E. Lemieux, A. 

 McNeill, L. H. Newman and T. E. Clarke. 



Miss W. K. Bentley, Ottawa, was elected a member of the 

 Club. 



The Publishing Committee presented a report showing 

 progress on the work of dealing with the Library question. 



' T. E. C. 



BIRDS OBSERVED AT OTTAWA, ONTARIO, WINTER 



1908-1909. 



By G. Eifrig. 



The present winter has been a very successful one for Ottawa, 

 from an ornithological point of view at least. While it has not 

 been an unqualified success from the standpoint of the winter 

 itself, inasmuch as the essentials of winter hereabouts, cold and 

 snow, are remarkable for their low quantity, and therefore coal- 

 dealers presumably will pronounce it a dismal failure, yet the 

 birds and especially the true Canadian winter birds have taken to 

 our fine capital city in greater number and variety than in many 

 years since and probably for many years to come. 



To begin with the rarest , on December 13th a flock of about 

 thirty Bohemian Waxwings or Chatterers (Ampelis garrulus) 

 took up their residence in the Metcalfe-O'Connor Streets' district 

 where they feasted on the berries of the many mount- 

 ain-ash trees to be found in that part of the city. They 

 usually divided into small flocks and spread out over this 

 area, and then they joined forces again for the night. From 

 about January 12th, hov/ever, they concentrated themselves at 

 the corner of Slater and O'Connor Streets, where a small rowan 

 tree offered berries to them that seemed to be more to their taste 

 than any others. Here and on neighboring larger trees they 



