158 The Ottawa Naturalist. [November 



In connection with the white winged cross-bills 1 may men- 

 tion that during the past winter (1897) they, as well as the A. 

 cross-bill,were very common in Ontario, and I saw three of them, 

 one in the red and two in green plumage among the Thousand 

 Isles, St. Lawrence River, as late as the 8th of April, These 

 were very tame and were feeding on the ground on hemlock 

 seeds. I also saw the pine siskin on the ist April in a black 

 spruce swamp. These birds breed readily in confinement, and 

 this year some eggs were laid by them at Rockwood House, 

 Kingston. 



T trust the above notes may be of interest, and that at a 

 future time I may have an opportunity of throwing further light 

 on the summer 'habitat' of some of our well-known birds. 

 Lansdowne, Ont., September 13th, 1897. 



OBITUARY— EDMUND von MOJSISOVICS. 



Edmund Mosjsisovics, of Mojsvar, died at the end of 

 August last, at Feldbach, in Styria, after a prolonged illness 

 caused by brain disease. As an eminent scholar, geologist and 

 palaeontologist, Mosjsisovics was well known the whole scientific 

 world over. He was born at Vienna on October i8th, 1839. In 

 1867 he entered the Imperial College of Geology, and in 1870 

 became chief geologist and mining expert. In 1891 he was 

 elected an effective member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences, 

 and in 1892 was appointed Vice-Director of the Imperial 

 College. 



For his excellent work and labours in the field of palaeon- 

 tological science he was best known. In addition to numerous 

 contributions on various subjects dealing with fossil organic 

 remains, Mosjsisovics published his great work entitled " Die 

 Cephalopoden der Hallstater Kalke" which appeared in two 

 volumes, accompanied by an atlas. In morphological and geo- 

 logical exploratory research he did a great deal of work in the 

 mountains of Bosnia and Hercegovina. In 1896 Mosjsisovics 

 was at his own request transferred to Gratz where he held the 

 post of Professor of Zoology until his regretted demise. — H.M.A. 



