30 BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



Among land snails, the very small kinds are in the 

 majority, especially on the rich intervals where they are com- 

 mon, and easily found sticking to decaying drift-wood, bark 

 and leaves. On the hard wood ridges some larger kinds live. 

 These are to be found under old logs, sticks, and leaves. 

 The largest of those shells, the Helix sayii, looks quite plain 

 when deprived of its occupant, but the body of the animal is 

 beautifully marked with brown spots and bands which show 

 through the translucent shell, and give the creature when 

 alive a beautiful appearance. It is uncommon about St. 

 John, but abundant where I found it on the Tobique. 



The birds of any region are apt to attract notice, and 

 though not a student of ornithology, I could not help observing 

 the commoner and larger kinds. A. large fish hawk made his 

 beat as regularly as a policeman up and down the river at 

 Eed Eapids. I often watched him, but never happened to 

 see him catch a fish. Wild ducks were very abundant on the 

 river, and are not troubled by the natives. A brood were reared 

 on an old pier just opposite one of my boarding places, and 

 this pier they had used for several years. Occasionally, a 

 heron or marsh hen is also to be seen. The moose bird, 

 familiarly called Joe Goddard's Ghost, after an old lumber- 

 man, is always seen hovering round the lumber camps; and 

 I notice it sometimes mistakes the Tobique houses for lumber 

 camps, and hovers around them too. It is a very tame bird- 

 When I have been using level or transit, it has stood about in 

 picturesque attitude as though it expected me to take its 

 photograph. I saw where a pair had their nest in the top of 

 an old tree trunk, too high to examine. Its more beautiful 

 and more noisy relative, the blue-jay, is even commoner, and 

 its harsh note often disturbs the quiet of the country roads. 

 Partridges are abundant and tame. I saw one killed by a 

 stone after a dozen had been thrown at it without its moving. 

 They used to be more plentiful, and afforded good sport to 

 boys skilful at throwing stones. 



Among mammals, I noticed scarcely anything of interest. 

 There are plenty of wild animals, but they generally keep out 



