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out the summer. Mr. Hughes has also made collections of insects and 

 other natural history objects. — C. E. D. Chubbuck. 



HuDSONiAN Chickadee {Parus Hudsonicus). — A specimen of this 

 rather rare northern bird was seen in an orchard in Ottawa East on the 

 23rd October. — W. A. D. Lees. 



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ENTOMOLOGY. 



Edited by W. Hague Harrington. 

 Calosoma scrutator at Ottawa. — A single wing-case of this 

 magnificent beetle, not previously recorded from Ottawa, was found by 

 Mr. Andrew Halkett upon Parliament Hill. Judging from the iresh 

 appearance of the fragment, the specimen had been recently killed. 

 This species is frequently found in Western Ontario and is sometimes 

 washed up along the shores of Lake Ontario in large numbers, but the 

 only other record from this part of Canada is a single specimen taken 

 by Mr. J. D. Evans at Sudbury, Ont.— J. F. 



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BOTANY. 



Edited by William Scott. 



Autumn Tints. — The foliage this year about Ottawa lacks the 

 usual variety and brilliancy of tints usually seen. Cold weather without 

 frost seemed to hasten the process of decay without bringing out the 

 glowing colours. 



On this subject of colours some trees seem independent of weather 

 in the matter of autumnal clothing. Acer Ginnaia, a dwarf maple from 

 the valley of the Amur River has been as glowing as ever in its garb 

 of bright red, looking in the distance liice a ball of fire. 



The Red Oak, too, with its rich crimson plumes is always reliable. 

 A row of these, in the Experimental Farm nursery, along side of the 

 yellow gold of the Cut-leaved Birch, presents an effect very pleasing 

 to the eye. Cut-leaved Sumach {R/nis glabra, var. laciniata) at this time 

 in point of colouring is identical with the sturdy oak, but presents a great 



