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The following paper was received from Mr. HAROLD 

 HERRICK of New York : 



A PARTIAL CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF GRAND MENAN, N. B. 



GRAND MENAN, the point at which these notes were 

 made, being situated at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, 

 about ten miles from the coasts of Maine and New Bruns- 

 wick and twice that distance from Nova Scotia, possesses 

 one of the most interesting faunae of the Atlantic coast, 

 forming, as it were, a neutral ground upon which strag- 

 glers from our southern districts mingle with those' of 

 more Arctic birth, and unite to form a local fauna of con- 

 siderable extent and great interest. 



The island is about twenty miles long by five wide. 

 On its western side, for about twelve miles, the surface 

 slopes gently to the shore and is well settled, but all the 

 rest of the coast from the "Southern Head" to the "Swal- 

 low-tail Light," is one continuous line of precipitous cliffs, 

 rising perpendicularly to the height of from two to six 

 hundred feet, and broken only by an occasional swale 

 through which pours some miniature torrent. The inte- 

 rior is composed of dense forests of spruce and pine, 

 alternating with alder swamps and heaths of Labrador 

 Tea, the latter the chosen abiding place of thousands ot 

 Lepus Americanus. 



Lying off from Grand Menan are numerous small islands, 

 where the sea-birds breed and have bred, to some consid- 

 erable extent, since the memory of man. Among the 

 chief of these islands are: Green, White-horse, Ross, 

 Two, Three and Whitehead islands. But these beloved 

 nesting-places are being gradually broken up, and the 

 persecuted birds are either retiring farther north, or are 

 betaking themselves to the inaccessible cliffs where they 

 cannot be molested. 



