OCTOBER. 1914 



VOL. XXVin No. 7 



THE 



OTTAWA 

 NATURALIST 



Published by The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. 



BMtOt: 



ARTHUR GIBSON, 



Entomological Branch, Department op Agriculture 



OTTAWA. 



?l00octate :iEOitor0: 



Harlan I. Smith, W. H. Harrington, P. A. Taverner, 



Anthropology. Entomology. Orinthology. 



M. O. Malte, Ph. D. H. M. Ami, D.Sc L. M. Lambe, F.G.S., 



Botany. Geology. P alceontology. 



Prof. John Macoun, M.A. Otto Klotz, LLD. C. Gordon Hewitt, D.Sc. 



Conchohgy. Meteorology. Zoology. 



CONTENTS: 



The Problem of Bird Encouragement. By W. E. Saunders - 81 



Myosurus in Canada. By Edward L. Greene - - - - 85 



The Genus Antennaria in Greenland. By Morten P. Porsild - 87 

 Excursions -----------92 



Book Notices — Birds of New York; Handbook of the Rocky 



Mountains Park Museum -------94 



The Burdock Gelechiid. — An Insect Seed-destroyer. By Arthur 



Gibson .'---------- 96 



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