112 The Ottawa Naturalist. [September 



ORNITHOLOGY. 



Herring Gull's Eggs. 

 On the 7th June of this season I collected on a small rocky 

 island in Trout Lake, in the Parry Sound District, two egg's of the 

 American Heron Gull [Larus argentatiis Smiihsonianus, Coues. 

 The nest was composed of moss, pine needles, small sticks, wild 

 hay, and lichen : its contents being these two eggs, which when 

 blown were found to be fresh. Their ground colour is brown gray 

 with greenish cast, one being somewhat lighter than the other ; 

 and they are spotted and blotched with light purplish gray and 

 sepia. They measure respectfully 2|| ins. x ij-g ins. and 2^x1^ 

 ins. Andrew Hai.kett. 



A Self-healing Wound. 



I once shot a wild pigeon that previously had had its breast 

 pierced through and through by a shot, and on each side the wound 

 was covered as if by a neatly applied gum and down plaster as 

 symetrically round as the hole itself and not quite as large as a 

 25 cents piece. Those plasters could be scraped off only by the 

 use of a knife, and when removed they lett to the view, on both 

 sides, a healthy looking and rapidly healing, though still open, 

 wound. Emery Perrin. 



ENTOiMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



The annual meeting ot this important society is to be held in 

 Ottawa on Sept. 3rd and 4th next, and is to be followed by a field 

 day on Saturday 5th The meetings are all open to the public, 

 and the members of the Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club are 

 specially invited to be present, to contribute papers and to take 

 part in the discussions. The day meetings will be held in the 

 Board of Trade room, 46 Elgin St., and the evening meeting on 

 Thursday, in the large assembly hall of the Normal School. At 

 this latter meeting Prof. W. Lochhead, of Guelph, will deliver his 

 inaugural address " The Progress of Entomology in Ontario," and 

 Dr. L. O. Howard, U. S. Entomologist, of Washington, will give 

 an address on "The Transmission of Yellow Fever by Mos- 

 quitoes." 



