PREFACE. v 



K, long. 73 34' W. The island of Montreal is 

 bounded on the southwest by Lake St. Louis, nine 

 miles southwest of the city, twenty miles long, with 

 greatest breadth seven miles ; at the west end by 

 Lake of Two Mountains, about twenty-four miles 

 long, and varying from one to six miles in breadth : 

 and on the northwest side by the Riviere des Prai- 

 ries and Isle Jesus, the latter being well wooded, 

 similarly as the island of Montreal ; length twenty- 

 three miles, and greatest breadth six miles. Other 

 places covered by the list are : Lake St. Peter, be- 

 tween lat. 46 and 46 8' K, and about 73 W., 

 length thirty-five miles, greatest breadth ten miles, 

 about sixty miles northeast of Montreal. There 

 are many islands in the south part of this lake, and 

 it is surrounded with extensive marshes, swamps 

 and muddy flats, which are well adapted as breed- 

 ing-places for aquatic birds. Ste. Rose, on Isle 

 Jesus, is sixteen and a-half miles northwest of 

 Montreal. The south shore of the St. Lawrence 

 river from Laprairie, seven miles south above, to 

 Sorel, forty-five miles northeast, below Montreal. 

 Chambly, sixteen miles southeast, and Abbottsford, 

 forty miles east-southeast of Montreal. 



The district of Montreal is the centre 6f attrac- 

 tion for a large number of North American birds 

 during the migratory periods in the spring and fall, 

 and many species remain here to breed. Ducks. 



