376 SHORE BIRDS OF NOVA SCOTIA — GILPIN. 
ed entirely of pine timber, creosoted in Great Britain, and sent 
out here. It has most effectively withstood the ravages of the 
teredo, whilst all other piles in the neighborhood had to be re- 
newed twice. 
Not satisfied with reports about its permanency, so far, I re- 
quested that the Sydney and Louisburg Coal and Railway Com- 
pany would have an examination made for the purpose of this 
paper. I have to-day a telegram from Mr. D. J. Kennelly, Q. C., 
managing director of that Company, in which he says: “Creos- 
oted pier absolutely sound; ten years erected. Timber not creos- 
oted twice renewed.” 
One of the objects of this paper is, firstly, to point out the ne- 
cessity Which exists for a creosoting apparatus to be placed in 
Nova Scotia, somewhere in the region of the Teredo’s most active 
operations ; and, secondly, that experiments be conducted by 
some responsible parties, as to the best means to adopt to arrest 
the ravages of the Limnoria Lignorum. 
Considering the interests at stake and the great annual loss to 
the Department of Public Works, Canada, Peon these destructive 
animals, one would think that something should be done in the 
public interests, by at least investigating the matter, and with 
the view of proper remedial measures being taken so far as prac- 
ticably possible, to mitigate or prevent their ravages in the 
future. 
Art. VIL—SnoreE Brrps or Nova Scotia. By BERNARD GILPIN, 
A. B., M. D., MB. C.S. 
(Read April 10th, 1882.) 
In studying the immense flocks of what are called Shore Birds, 
which yearly appear during July, August and September of each. 
year upon the flats of the Bay of Fundy, St. Mary’s Bay, the 
Tuskets, and Digby Basin, in Nova Scotia, we must consider 
them as migratory birds, breeding, with few exceptions, in the 
Polar regions, and now returning with their young to warmer 
latitudes, reaching even the Gulf of Mexico, and thus passing our 
