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THE BIRDS OF OTTAWA. 



The appended list of birds found in the neighbourhood of Ottawa 

 has been compiled by the leaders of the Ornithological Branch of the 

 Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club, from the records of the Club, and 

 embodies the work of the Branch from its establishment in the begin- 

 ning of the year 1881 to the end of the year 1890. 



A list was published in 1882 (Transactions O. F. N. C, Vol. I., 

 No. 3, p. 29), enumerating one hundred and sixty-nine species. Of 

 these the following were afterwards struck off the list, having been 

 inserted by mistake: — 12, Harporhyjicus cinereus ; 329, Glaucidium 

 passerimim,\ax. Californicum : 398, ^■Egialitis Wilsonius ; 609, Podiceps 

 cristatus. The following substitutions were also made : — 33, Pants 

 Hudsoniciis for 34, P. rufescens ; 125, Vireo gilvus for 132, V. pusilliis ; 

 467, Rallus Virginianus for 470, Porzana Jamaicensis ; 556, Lams 

 Philadelphia for 555, L. Franklinii. Of those remaming, or since 

 added to the list, it is now thought advisable to drop the following, 

 either because of mistakes in identification, or because sufficient evid- 

 ence cannot now be adduced to support the records : — Cotiirniculus 

 passerinus, Transactions O. F. N. C, Vol. I., No. 3, p. 30; Ibid., 

 No. 4, p. 85 ; Steganopus Wilsonii, Ibid., No. 3, p. 32 ; Larus 

 atricilla, Ibid., p. 44; Cistothorus stellaris, Ibid., Vol. II., p. 141. See 

 also Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. IV., pp. 93, 162. Buteo Swainsoni, 

 Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. II., p. 49 ; Acanthis linaria rostrata. Ibid., 

 p. 150; Geothlypis agilis, Ibid., p. 150; Turdiis alicice, Ibid., p. 150. 

 With these changes, the additions made to the old list since its publica- 

 tion bring the number recorded to two hundred and twenty-four. This 

 number includes two species now recorded for the first time by the 

 Club, v\z.\ No. II, Urinafor lumvie, and No. 301, Lagopus lagopus, 

 besides those mentioned in the Report for the year 1890, which has 

 not yet been published. 



The district covered by this list is embraced within a circle of 

 thirty miles radius, with the City of Ottawa as its centre. It includes, 

 roughly speaking, the Counties of Carleton and Russell, in Ontario, and 

 the Southern portion of the County of Ottawa, in Quebec, and lies 

 between 45° and 46° N. lat. The Northern portion of this district is 

 covered by what may be termed the first range of the Laurentian Hills, 



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