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Dicentra Canadensis DeC. Cypripedium parviflorum Salitb. 



Claytonia Virginica Linn. pubescens Willd. 



Geranium maculatum Linn. spectabile Swartx. 



Rubus odoratus Linn. Iris versicolor Linn. 



Rosa blanda Aiton. Trillium grandiflorum Saliab. 



Rudbeckia fulgida Aiton. erectum Linn. 



Campanula rotundifolia Linn. Uvularia grandiflora Smith. 

 Pyrola elliptica Nuttall. Lilium Philadelpbioum Linn. 

 uniflora Linn. Erythronium Americanum Smith. 



Zoological Notes. — We have received an analytical chart 

 of the birds of Canada, by J. J. G. Terrill, of Hamilton, C. W. 

 The classification of Dr. Baird is adopted, and the orders, 

 sub-orders, families, genera, species, &c., are given in a tabular 

 form. It will prove very useful to schools, and to students 

 of Canadian ornithology generally. The list contains 242 

 species, which have been principally recorded from Western 

 Canada. Some few additional species of marine birds occur 

 in the Gulf of the St. Lawrence, and on the other hand a few 

 birds have been catalogued from Western Canada that have not 

 as yet been found in the Province of Quebec. 



Dr. Elliot Coues' monograph on the American Alcidoe, pub- 

 lished in the journal of the proceedings of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for January and February, 

 1868, is of considerable interest to the student of North 

 American ornithology. It is not yet very certainly ascertained 

 whether the Great Auk has ever been taken on the coast of 

 Eastern North America, The species is reported to breed on a 

 low rocky island to the south-west of Newfoundland. Mr. J. 

 Wolley has shewn that this species is not a bird of high latitudes, 

 as was at one time supposed, and an interesting account by this 

 author is quoted of its supposed extinction in Iceland ; also his 

 statement that the last specimens of the species known to have 

 been taken were captured in 1844. The Razor Bill and the 

 common Puffin both breed in the River and Gulf of the St. 

 Lawrence, and it is not unlikely that the "large-billed" puffin, 

 Fratercula glacialis, may be met with in Eastern Canada. The 

 tufted puffin, it appears, occasionally occurs on the East Coast of 

 North America, it has been thought an almost exclusively 

 western species. Other Canadian examples of the order are the 

 Sea Dove, Mergulus alle, and four species of Guillemot, of each 

 of which detailed descriptions are given in Dr. Coues' essay. 



