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the results of a careful examination of the herbaria of some twenty 

 botanists of Maine, to whose collections the author had access. This 

 new catalogue is intended to be an introduction to a much more an- 

 notated list of plants, which, it is hoped, may be published within a few- 

 years. The plants of Maine, and those of the Maritime Provinces and 

 adjoining portions of the Province of Quebec, are very similar, and a 

 careful comparison between the records obtained in these sections of 

 North Eastern America, will soon reveal the vast amount of work — 

 good work — that has been and is being done ; also of the geographical 

 distribution of certain forms in various conditions, such as these 

 Atlantic provmces afford. 



The Portland Society of Natural History deserves commendation 

 for the neat and careful way in which the Catalogue has been published. 



H. M. Ami. 

 ORNITHOLOGY. 



Edited by A. G. Kingston. 



A fine specimen of the White-headed Eagle {^Halicpetics leucocephalus) 

 was shot by Mr. Ed^vard White about the middle of November in a 

 marah near Rockland, about twenty miles east of the city. It was a 

 young male, and measured 6 feet 9 inches across the extended wings. 

 This bird is becoming exceedingly rare in the sealed parts of Canada. 



A curious instance of aberration from the usual nesting habit in 

 the Chimney Swift {Ch(ztura pelagica) came under the writer's observa- 

 tion in October last at Aylmer, Elgin Co., Ont. Instead of the seclusion 

 of a hollow tree or disused chimney, the birds had chosen in this cast to 

 establish their home in a small outbuilding near the railway station. 

 Despite the fact that persons were frequently passing through the build- 

 ing, the little cup of twigs had been glued against the wall about five 

 feet from the floor. The marks of attachment and a few broken twigs 

 still adhered tq the wall when found, but the greater part of the nest 

 had been torn down and laid upon a shelf close by. — A. G. K. 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. 



In response to an invitation from the Royal Society of Canada 

 and the Logan Club, the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Geological 



