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DECEMBER. 1914 



VOL. XXVra No. 9 



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OTTAWA 

 NATURALIST 



Published by The Ottawa Field-Naturalists* Club. 



CONTENTS: 



List of Tachinidae from the Province of Quebec. By J. D. Tothill 113 

 Book Notices ---------- 116 



Meeting of the Botanical Branch - - - - - - 117 



The Value of Some Mammals and Birds as Destroyers of Noxious 



Insects. B}'^ Norman Griddle --------- 119 



Notes on the Quail - - - - - -- - - 124 



Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario, 1914 - 126 

 The Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club Programme of Winter Meetings 128 



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