170 BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



It has been my good fortune, during the past season, to. he able to 

 add to the list the Northern or Mink Frog, Rana septentrionalis. 



The first specimens, which were identified by Dr. Philip Cox, 

 were taken in a small lake near Golden Grove Road. I afterward 

 saw two other specimens at Murphy's Lake, near Treadwell's place, 

 on the Loch Lomond Road, but only succeeded in capturing one of 

 them. 



The specimens taken were as follows : — Length, two-and-a-half 

 inches ; back, dark brown, almost black with lighter greenish vermi- 

 culations ; white underneath, with a slight tinge of yellow on throat ; 

 muzzle green ; limbs more mottled than barred, much the same as 

 back ; tympanum slightly smaller than eye, colored brown. Fold- 

 down sides of back very slight, if any. 



The markings of the backs of the younger were not so perfect as on 

 those full grown, and there were two rows of large oblong blackish 

 spots down the Lack, which are hardly discernible in the adults. 



Chas. F. B. Rowe. 



Birds. 



The numbers refer to the list of birds printed in Bulletin 1. 1883 



Section A. 

 (Species winch occur in St. John ami Kings Counties. I 



147. Knot. Robin Snipe (Tringa canutus). A rare autumn visitant and only 

 one reported as taken at St. Martins on September 8, 188,1. 

 Notk. — A female taken at Red Head Beach on September 5, Isils, by 

 Win. Hare. 

 152. Red-backed Sandpiper. "Dunlin" (Tringa Alpina Pacifica) a rare 

 autumn visitant, two records, one each of I and 4. 

 Note. A female taken al < l >uae<M>n October 12, 1898, bj George Hair, Esq. 

 IH7. Rurdy Duck (Erismatura rubida). Onlj two instances of its occurence 

 known (in addition a male and female were reported in Bulletin \V1 

 :>■ 74) anil I now have in my collection a female taken at Wickliam, 

 on November It h, 1808, bj John < Iraft. 



A. < rORDON LEAVITT. 



A. GORDON LEAVITT. 

 WILLIAM M< tNTOSH, 

 ('HAS. I - . B. ROWE, 



Zoological ( 'ommittt e. 



