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Kermode, F. and Anderson, E. M. 



Report on birds collected and observed during September, 1913, on Atlin 

 Lake, from Atlin to south end of the Lake. 



Report of the Provincial Museum for the year 1913, Province of British 

 Columbia. Victoria, 1914, pp. G. 19-G. 21. 

 An annotated list of 35 species. 



Lewis, Harrison F. 



Breeding of the Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus phoeniceus) 

 in Nova Scotia. 



The Auk, October, 1914, vol. xxxi. No. 4, pp. 537, 538. 

 Describes the finding of a nest of this bird in a swamp near Antigonish, 

 N.S. 



A problem in food-supply and distribution. 



Bird-lore, March-April, 1914, vol. xvi. No. 2, p. 113. 

 Suggests the possibility of a northward migration in winter of Red- 

 breasted Nuthatches and Crossbills in order to obtain a more abundant 

 food-supply. 



MacClement, W. T. 



The New Canadian Bird Book. 



Dominion Book Company, Toronto, 1914, xvi-j- 324 pp., with 60 



full-page coloured illustrations. 



Contains a key to the orders and families of Canadian birds, and 



short descriptions of all the specie with notes on their habits and 



distribution. 



McLeod, J. R. 



Cowbird's Eggs. 



The Oologist, June, 1914, vol. xxxi, No. 6, p. 128. 



Notes the plentiful occurrence of eggs of this bird in Middlesex Co., 

 Ont., during 10 successive years, and cites two cases in which more 

 than one cow-bird's egg were found in the same nest. Also notes 

 successive laying of three eggs in one nest of the Chestnut-sided Warbler. 



Norman, Ernest S. 



Gavia imber (Loon). 



The Oologist, September, 1914, vol. xxxi. No. 9, pp. 173, 174. 

 Describes the finding of a loon's nest on the shore of Stony Lake, 

 Northern Manitoba. 



Oberholser, Harry C. 



A monograph of the genus Chordeiles Swainson, type of a new family of 

 goatsuckers. 



Smithsonian Institution, U.S. National Museum, Bulletin 86, 1914, 

 pp. 1-123, with 5 plates. 



Two forms are included in the Canadian fauna, viz. C. virginianus 

 virginianus and C. virginianus hesperis. 



Piers, Harry. 



The occurrence of European birds in Nova Scotia. 



Transactions of the Nova Scotia Institute of Science, June 25, 1914, 

 vol. xiii, part 2, pp. 228-239. 



