AUGUST, 1901. 



VOL. XV, No. 5. 



THE 



OTTAWA 

 NATURALIST. 



Published bv the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. 



CONTENTS. 



Page 



1. The Physical Geography of the Red River Valley, by D. 



B. Dowling ... .... .... .... ... ....115 



2. My First Namesake, by Samuel H. Scudder .... .... 121 



3. On the Autumn Flowering of Various Wild Plants in igoo, 



by Cephas Guillet .... .... .... ... .... 123 



4. Tringites Rufescens, Buff-Breasted Sandpiper, by G. A. 



McCallum .... .... .... .... .... .... 127 



5. The \Voodcock's Love Song, by L. H. Smith .... 129 



6. The late Dr. Eleanor A. Ormerod .... .... ... 130 



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