38 THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. [March 



Quarterly Journal for July, 1863,^ and Haughton, who in 1864 

 visited Loch Scavig, has since described and analysed the rock bf 

 that locality, which consists of labradorite, often coarse grained, 

 with pyroxene and menaccanite, and is evidently, according to 

 him, a bedded metamorphic rock (Dublin Quar. Jour., 1865, p. 

 94). He, it may be remarked, designates it as a syenite, a term 

 which most lithologists apply to rocks whose feldspar is ortho- 

 clase. 



I desire to call the attention of both American and European 

 lithologists to this remarkable class of rocks, of which the norites 

 may be regarded as the normal and typical form, in the hope that 

 they may be induced to examine still farther into the question of 

 the age and geognostical relations of these rocks in various regions, 

 and to determine whether the mineralogical and lithological cha- 

 racters which I have pointed out are geological constants. 



NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF NEWFOUNDLAND. 



By Henry Reeks, F.L.S., &c. 



The foUowiuc^ article, on the Zoology of a part of British America as 

 yet but little explored, is taken from the "Zoologisf^ (London, England,) 

 for 1869. The close similarity between the birds of Newfoundland and 

 those of the Province of Quebec, will be very apparent to Canadian 

 ornithologists. — Ed. 



Before commencing a systematic list of the avi-fauna of New- 

 foundland, it will perhaps be necessary to say a few words on 

 the island itself. Newfoundland, as my readers are probably 



* I, at the same time, called attention to the Lameutian aspect of the 

 crystalline limestones of Zona, which I found in MacCulloch's collection. 

 Limestones not unlike these occur in Skye, intermixed with serpentine, 

 and are, according to Mr. Geikie, associated with the protruded syenites 

 of that region. With all deference to the authority of that eminent 

 geologist, I cannot help suggesting that a re-examination of the district 

 would show that the highly -inclined metamorphic crystalline limestones, 

 holding sei-pentine, and associated with syenitic rocks, belong to an older 

 system (probably Laurentiau), and are thus distinct fi-om the nearly 

 horizontal fossiliferous liassic limestones nearby, which are only locally 

 altered by intrusive rocks. American geologists will at once recall the 

 misconception which led most of our best observers during many years 

 to look upon the old Laurentiau limestones of j^ew York and New Jer- 

 sey as altered portions of the overlying paleozoic strata. 



