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Sylvania pusilla, Wilson's Warbler. 



Turdus ustulatihs swainsonii, Olive-backed Thrush. 



Ampelis garrulus, Bohemian Wax wing. 



Nycticorax nycticorax ncevius, Black-crowned Night 



Heron. 

 Ardea her'odias, Great Blue Heron. 

 Spizella pusilla, Field Sparrow. 

 Loxia curvirostra minor, American Crossbill. 

 Cistothorus palustris. Long-billed Marsh Wren. 

 Passerina cyanea, Indigo Bunting. 

 Helminthophila rvficapiUa, Nashville Warbler. 



Wm. a. D. Lees, ") 



John Macoun, > Leaders. 

 Geo. R. Whitb, j 

 Ottawa, 1st July, 1889. 



Correction. — In the report of the Ornithological Branch for 1888 



(Naturalist, Vol. II, p. 151, March, 1889), in line 21, for "new" 



read "rarer." 



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BOOK NOTICES. 



On nematophyton and allied forms from the Devonian (Erian) 

 OF Gaspe and the Baie des Chaleurs, by Prof. D. P. Penhallow, 

 (with introductory notes, by Sir William Dawson, F.R.S). Trans. 

 Roy. Soc. Can., Yol. VI, 1889, p. 27. 



This paper contains an able exposition of the new facta and rela- 

 tions concei-ning this obscure tree-like plant-remain which has caused so 

 long and so interesting a discussion between Prof. Carruthers, Sir Wm. 

 Dawson and others both in the old and the new world. 



Part I opens with an " Introductory note," by Sir Wm. Daw- 

 son, in which he gives an historical sketch of the discovery of those 

 fossil plants which were at one time referred to the genus Frototaxites. 

 Sir Wm. Logan, Sir Wm. Dawson, Dr. G. M. Dawson, Prof. Kennedy, 

 Dr. Bell and others had discovered them in Canada, whilst Dr. Henry 

 Hicks and Prof. Etheridge had also obtained them in shales of the 

 Ludlow formation, and from the " Denbighshire grits." The geologi- 

 cal relations of the strata in which these fossil plants occur are then dis- 

 cussed, the species of fossil fishes Coccosteus, Ctenacanthus, Leptacanthus 

 and Macliceracanthus are enumerated and notes are given on other 

 species of fossil remains. 



