OUTREMONT 



4432 



OVID 



In 1860 ill health forced him to return to Eng- 

 land, where the rest of his life was spent. 



OUTREMONT, ootfmawN', a city in 

 Hochelaga County, Quebec, a residential sub- 

 urb of which it adjoins on the north- 

 west. Its name, a compound of outre and 

 mont, means beyond the mountain, and refers 

 location of the city with respect to 

 Mount Royal. The founders of Outremont, in 

 the early years of the nineteenth century, were 

 in Brothers, better known as the 

 Sulpician Fathers, who culled the new settle- 

 iierine, the name by which 

 it was known until 1875, when it was incor- 

 i as the villapc of Outremont. It be- 

 came a town in 1895 and a city in 1915. 

 From .ning of its municipal career 

 Outremont has had the benefit of stringent 

 buildinp regulations and other ordinances which 

 r entirely eliminated undesirable 



- of city life. It has good stores, schools 

 anil churches, free skating rink in the park and 

 abundant opportunity for winter and summer 

 sports, but has never had a saloon. Outremont 



- d by three railway lines, the Canadian 

 Pacific D Northern and Grand Trunk, 



-Teet railway to Montreal, 

 whose < bout two and a half miles from 



aont. Population in 1911, 4,820; in 1916, 

 about 12,000. 



OUZEL, oo'z'l, a sprightly little bird of the 

 dipper family, whose home is in mountainous 



- along the banks of dashing streams, 

 where it appears as cheery in winter as in sum- 

 Its flight is powerful, rapid and direct, 



and it descends 



suddenness 



\A startling. 



ouzel, 



in both 



North 



and Western 



'a, is about 



t li e size of a 



1 has a THBWATBROUZBL 

 delicate gray body with brownish-tinged head 

 and wings. The birds stand on -tones in 

 bobbing up and down and jerking 

 Is, until suddenly they dive noise- 

 lessly down into t i of food, 

 consist inp largely of the eggs and young of 

 water insect <. They seem quite at home in the 

 wat' -wimming below the surface for a 

 con- distance. Their oven-.-haped : 

 made of moss are always placed ne.-ir running 

 water. Three to five white eggs are laid. 



OVEN, ur'tn, BIRD, a common American 



warbler, called also the (joldcn-crowncd water 

 thrush, from its resemblance to a small thrush, 

 has a brown back, (hill-orange crown and white 

 spotted with black. Its singing note 

 resembles the word tKichcr, repeated seven] 

 times and in an ascending key. The oven bird 

 from Kansas to Virginia and northward 

 to Manitoba and Labrador. It takes its name 

 from its nest, which is built somewhat in the 

 shape of a rude oven, made of grasses and clay. 



THE OVEN BIRD 



Sometimes several months are required to con- 

 struct the nest. The eggs are four or five in 

 number and are white, speckled or spotted with 

 cinnamon color. These birds live wholly on in- 

 sect food. A South American bird which builds 

 a dome-shaped nest of mud is also called by 

 this name. 



OVID (Publius Ovidius Naso) (43 B.C.-A.D. 

 18), a celebrated Roman poet, was born at 

 Sulmo. His father gave him an excellent edu- 

 cation but insisted on his studying law, al- 

 though his natural inclinations were toward a 

 literary career. After studying for a time in 

 Athens he took up his residence in Rome, but 

 unfitted by reason of his natural indolence for 

 a public career, he contented himself with one 

 or two subordinate offices. Soon even these 

 were given up, and he spent his time in writing 

 and in the pursuit of pleasure. Ovid was twice 

 married while very young, but each time di- 

 vorced his wife shortly after marriage, and be- 

 fore he was thirty was married for the third 

 time. 



In the year A. D.*8 he was banished by an 

 edict of Augustus from Rome to Tomi, a town 

 on the shores of the Black Sea. The ostensible 

 reason for this banishment was the publication 

 of the Ars Amatoria, but the real reason it is 

 impossible to discover. Ovid speaks of it, but 

 vaguely, and it is supposed to have been con- 



