154 The Ottawa Naturalist. 



Gushing, Harold B., (B. A.) — " On the ferns in the vicinity of 

 Montreal." Can. Rec. Sc, y6 pp. October, 1895. 



Amongst the species recorded we note as of special 

 interest : — 



Dicksonia pilosiuscula, Willd. Asplenium angustifolium, 

 Michx. and Camptosorus rhizopJiyllus, Link. — H. M. A. 



PiNUS Banksiana. — Several small trees or shrubs were found about half a mile 

 south ot Aylmer, in the pine grove between the railway track and the river. — H. A. 

 HONEYMAN, Alymer Que. 



Ornithology. 



Near St. Thonias recently a farmer shot in his orchard a 

 TurKey Buzzard (Cathartes aura). Although met with in the 

 extreme western part of the Ontario peninsula, this southern 

 bird is seldom seen east thereof in Ontario. 



Montague Chamberlain in "Canadian Birds" 1887, speaks 

 of it as abundant on the plains and fairly common m the 

 Southern portions of British Columbia. It occurs legularly at 

 the St. Clair Flats but east of that is only accidental. A few 

 specimens have been taken at Grand Manan and Mr, ' Philip 

 Cox reported the occurrence of two at the mouth of the Miramichi 

 River in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. — Otto J. Klotz. 



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