CHAPTER XVI. 



NOTES. 



It may be useful to give here a few notes that have 

 been made by members of the A. A., partly to show 

 what sort of work is being done, and partly to furnish 

 a suggestion to new members of what they can do. 

 These notes, as well as most of the letters from chap- 

 ters and friends already given, are taken nearly at ran- 

 \ dom from our monthly reports. 



BIRDS OF PICTOU, NOVA SCOTIA. 



I send you a list of the birds which I found and identified 

 last year in Pictou. I found them all, the duck excepted, with 

 in a space of not more than thirty acres around Cliff Cottage. 

 WILLIE SHERATON, Cor Mem. Chapter I. 



STRAY PELICANS. 



A neighbor was out with a lantern one very dark and 

 foggy evening, when several pelicans flew against him, nearly 

 knocking him over. They were evidently lost, and so be- 

 wildered that eight of them were easily captured, and, even 

 then, the remainder of the large flock would not leave so long 

 as the light was visible. I think they were the common white 

 American pelican. 



JESSE FRENCH, Sec. Chapter 432, 

 Grand Rapids, La Moure Co., Dakota. 



BEES AND PETUNIAS. 



After watching bumble-bees for the whole summer, I have 

 never yet seen one enter the tube of the petunia. Instead of 

 this they tmncture the wall of the corolla at a point in the 

 angle formed between it and the calyx, insert their proboscides 

 and extract the honey. GILBERT VAN INGEN. 



HOME-BREWED SNOW-STORM. 



I can testify to the following, which took place in the 

 kitchen on wash-day. It was near Richmond, Ind. The tern- 



