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Amygdalocystites florkalis var. l.evjs, N. \^ai'. 



I ])ro[)Ose to separate tlie Hull sj)eciraen as a variety under the 

 name of Icevis, owing to its smootli plates. 



Hudson River Formation Crixoids. 



I have to record the discovery of locrinus sicbo-assus, Ghjplocrinus 

 decadactylus and Gl. parvus in the Trenton Limestone of Brigham's 

 Lake, Hull, where they occur in the same beds with Glyptocrinus 

 ramidosus, GL ornatus, Dendrocrinus acutidacfylus and other character- 

 istic Trenton forms. So far as I am aware, the three first named have 

 not been recorded from strata of the acre of the Trenton Limestone. 



TILE DUCKS OF THIS LOCALITY. 



W. P. Lett. 



It is not my intention on this occasion to attempt to offer you 

 anything of a purely scientific character, although it might be no 

 difficult matter in thij age of intellectual progress, when standard 

 authorities upon almost every subject of thought are so numerous and so 

 easily available, to deliver a scientific dissertation u})on any given theme. 

 From a sportsman's point of view, I prefer, as possibly the more 

 interesting to you and less trouble to myself, to give you my own 

 experience amongst tliat jiarticular branch of our game birds, the duty of 

 speaking about which has been assigned to me this evening. My 

 exi)erience amongst the wild ducks which visit this part of Canada has 

 been ac(]uired in the bark canoe, amongst the rushes and the rice, and 

 beside the camp fire, where I have passed many a happy day, and 

 many a gloiious night — where I have formed friendships which no 

 subsequent combination of circumstances could ever shake. In dealing 

 with our wild ducks, I am quite willing to accord to the canvas- 

 back all the excellences attributed to it, when it has been possible for it 

 to feed u])(jn the roots of the wild celery [Valisneria), which impart to 

 the fiesh of these fine birds that delicious flavour for which they are so 

 celebrated. After all, however, at the top of the list I feel inclined to 

 place tlie black duck (^A)ias ohscura), not only on account cf its size, 



