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there was something of importance to be done in a scientific way 

 besides the making of a collection, is significant. Only a few years 

 later Lawrence, who up to then had published nothing, began to 

 issue the first of the long series of ornithological papers and descrip- 

 tions of new species which made him famous. Audubon at this 

 time must have dominated the ornithological field, and perhaps 

 Giraud, in launching out on his own account, did even more by his 

 example, to advance ornithological science than by the actual 

 value of his publications. 



FURTHER NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE BIRDS 

 OF HATLEY, STANSTEAD COUNTY, QUEBEC, 1918. 



BY H. MOUSLEY. 



In the present paper I propose to adopt the same principle as 

 in my previous one (Auk, Vol. XXXV, 1918, pp. 289-310), i.e., of 

 first giving a general account of the season, following this up with 

 an annotated list of the five new species added during the year 

 while carrying on the numbering from where it left off in 1917. 



In addition to these five new species, the breeding list has been 

 increased from seventy-seven to eighty-three species, the six new 

 ones, whose nests, eggs or young had not been previously taken, 

 being the Virginia Rail, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Wood Pewee, 

 Purple Finch, Bay-breasted Warbler and House Wren, whilst cir- 

 cumstances point to the fact of the Olive-sided Flycatcher, Cape 

 May Warbler and Golden-crowned Kinglet having bred also, so 

 that a dagger may now be added to their names in the list already 

 given of the birds to be found at Hatley, as well as a star to the 

 above-mentioned six species. 



Now on reference to the above paper it will be seen that the 

 months of November and December, 1917, had been conspicuous 

 for the almost entire absence of winter birds, and as the intense cold 



