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done splendid work in studying the Natural History of the dis- 

 trict. The results of the labors of the members were contained 

 in the printed transactions of the Club and the volumes of The 

 Ottawa Naturalist. The Club had, durinjj the past twenty-live 

 vears, given thousands of Ottawa's citizens pleasant outings in 

 the country, where those who loved Nature had splendid oppor- 

 tunities for study. 



Short speeches were also made by Dr. Robert Bell, the 

 Director of the Geological Survey, and Prof. J. Macoun. A vote 

 of thanks was proposed by Mr. W. H. Harrington and seconded 



by Mr James Ballantyne. 



W. T. M. 



SOIREES. 



At the meeting oi the Club held in the Normal School Jan- 

 uary 5th, the Rev. C. Eifrig lectured on "The Differences and 

 Correspondences between the Avi-fauna of Ottawa and the Mary- 

 land Alleghanies." The speaker endeavored to show that, 

 although the region under discussion is six to seven hundred miles 

 south of Ottawa, there are not only marked differences in the 

 status of the ornis of Ottawa and the Maryland Alleghanies, but 

 also many and surprising correspondences. This production of 

 suitable conditions for birds, as well as plants, of otherwise 

 widely distant regions, is brought about by the great differences 

 in altitude in that section. And while it is well known that 

 among the high peaks of the Rocky Mountains all the different 

 conditions and areas of floral and faunal life, from the tropic to 

 the arctic, may be found close together, it seems surprising that 

 somewhat similar conditions should exist in the much lesser alti- 

 tudes of the Appalachian Mountains. The valleys in the western- 

 most part of Maryland, which are crossed by the Alleghanies, are 

 from 500 to 1,000 feet above tidewater and are in the Carolinian 

 life zone. This is where the differences between here and there 

 come in. The Carolinian belt of the Austral or southern life zone 

 is characterized by such birds as the cardinal {Oirdhin/tx nir- 

 (/iiKi/is), tufted titmouse {Parus bicolor), Carolina wren {T/iiyo- 

 llionis liidot'icianiis), Carolina chickadee [Parus caro/mensis) and 



