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—in a black spruce, about fifteen feet from the ground. He 
found that it contained eleven eggs. During the process of 
blowing, one of these was broken; the others are still in his col- 
lection. Not long after this he found two more nests. They 
contained young birds. The breeding habits of this kinglet are 
almost wholly unknown to naturalists and Mr. Austen is exceed- 
ingly fortunate in having obtained its nest together with eggs. 
and young. 
REPTILES, 
LEATHER TURTLE (Sphargis coriacea). About August 30th, 
1889, Mr. William Saul found a large turtle entangled in his 
mackerel net which was set a few miles from the harbour of 
Prospect, near Halifax. The animal was secured alive and 
brought to Messrs. Boak & Bennett’s wharf at Halifax, where it 
was placed in a tank and supplied with salt water. I examined 
it on the 2nd and 3rd of September and found it to be the 
Leather Turtle, a native of tropical seas. It has never been 
taken so far north on this coast and therefore is entirely new to 
Nova Scotia. I can find no record of its capture to the north- 
ward of Massachusetts. Owing to its powerful fore-paddles 
this species is much given to wandering and is sometimes. 
driven by storms far from its native seas to strange and distant 
lands. In this way it has been found on the shores of England 
and France and now on the coast of our own Province. In some 
details our specimen differs from any discription to which I have 
access. This may probably be accounted for by a variation in 
age. For the sake of comparison I shall give the measurements. 
of our specimen along with those of one described by Professor 
Belle 
* History of British Reptiles, London, 1849, p. 17, 
