122 The Ottawa Naturalist. [October 



served specimen, in the Museum of the Geological Survey. As 

 Mr. Billings says of this specimen, it exhibits only " an artificial 

 polished section passing through the central plane of the whorls, 

 shewing t learly the construction of the tube to the apex, where it 

 has a diameter of only one line ; some of the septa and almost one- 

 half of the transverse section ; but neither the siphuncle, the char- 

 acter of the surface, nor the length of the produced oral extremity 

 is indicated." 



The attention ot collectors in Kingston and Ottawa is called 

 to these two very imperfectly defined species, in the hope that a 

 renewed and diligent search at these localities would result in the 

 discovery of specimens that are sufficiently perfect to establish 

 their position among modern genera, and to more fully elucidate 

 their specific characters. 



Ottawa, Sept. 21st, :903. 



A ROBIN STORY. 



Emery Perrin, Ottawa. 



One early morning m the first week of June last, as I was 

 standing at my bed-room window, facing the garden, I perceived 

 a male robin which was literary dancing on top of the fence, while 

 chirping loud without interruption. 



On opening the window, I knew by the bird's antics and shrill 

 voice that something was wrong, possibly with it's mate, and that 

 the brave fellow was actually calling for help. 



I hastened down to the garden, and the moment the robin saw 

 me it redoubled It's effort^ to attract my attention, flying to and 

 fro and from me to the fence, as if to indicate that the trouble was 

 on the other side of it. At which I concluded that some prowling 

 cat must be in the very act of devouring the robin's mate or one 

 of it's young. 



But no, there was no devouring being done yet. Only a big 

 tom-cat was crouching on a pile of old lumber and watching from 

 that point of vantage a poor female robin that was hanging by a 

 piece of twine fastened to its broken leg trom a heavy lopped-oflF 

 plum-tree branch lying on the ground between pile an'd fence. The 



