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Barred " (Strix nebulosa). 



Screech " (Strix asio). 



Short-eared Owl (Strix brachyotus). 



Long " " (Strix virginiana). 



Horned " (Strix bubo). 



Snowj-daj " (Strix nyctea). 



Winter Falcon (Falco lineatus). 



Goshawk (Falco palumbarius). 



L. — Snipe (Scolopax Wilsonii). 



Making a total of 23 winter residents and 4 loiterers. 



The American Crow {Corviis Americanus) has been seen here 

 sometimes during November and December. 



The Blue Robin (Sialia Stalis) is also mentioned by some as 

 remaining here, but it must be very rarely. He arrives early 

 in spring, and his song is the first we hear, welcoming sum- 

 mer; he generally moves southward about November. 



Montreal, Nov. loth, 1860. 



ARTICLE LIT. — Notes on Ahoriginal Antiquities recently dis* 

 covered in the Island of Montreal, 



(Read before the Natural History Society of Montreat.) 



Toward the end of last month the writer was informed that 

 some workmen employed by Edmond Dorion, Esq., had discover- 

 ed what were supposed to be Indian remains, near Mansfield 

 street. On application to Mr. Dorion, he kindly gave the specimens 

 in his possession for presentation to the Natural History Society, 

 and instructed his labourers to preserve any other remains that 

 might occur. The specimens obtained from Mr. Dorion consisted 

 of a skull evidently of American type, fragments of a second skull, 

 and portions of earthen vessels similar to those made by the 

 aborigines before the colonization of the country. 



The place in which the remains were found is immediately below 

 Sherbrooke street,between Mansfield and Metcalfe streets and in the 

 line of Burnside Place. It is a part of the dry sandy knoll or terrace, 

 between the College Brook and that running through Honorable 

 Judge Smith's properly, on the level of Sherbrooke street, and 

 sloping rapidly toward the flat in rear of St. Catherine street. 

 The ground has been ploughed, but is at present vacant and used 

 for the excavation of sand for building. The sand is of the Post- 



