September. 1920] 



The Canadian Field-Naturalist 



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Nova Scotia lacks bird songs in the season of song. 

 The observations on which this summary is based 

 were made in the counties of Yarmouth, Kings, and 

 Halifax. 



Loon, 2 Culls, Creat Blue Heron, 3 Snipe, Can- 

 ada Ruffed Grouse, Barred Owl, Belted King- 

 fisher, 3 Woodpeckers, Nighthawk, Ruby-throated 

 Hummingbird, 3 Flycatchers, 2 Jays, Northern 

 Raven, Crow, Rusty Blackbird, 7 Finches, Tree 

 Swallow, 2 Vireos, 18 Warblers, Wmter Wren, 

 Redbreasted Nuthatch, 2 Chickadees, Ruby- 

 crowned Kinglet, 3 Thrushes. 



Harrison F. Lewis, Bergerville, P.Q. 



Prosecutions, Migratory Birds Convention 

 Act and Northwest Game Act by Officers 

 OF THE Dominion Parks Branch and Royal 

 Canadian Mounted Police. 



Migratory Birds Convention Act. 



George Albert Culbert, Boisevain, Manitoba, for 

 having four live Blue-winged Teal — Fine $10.00. 



Fred Z. Boudreau, Boudreauville, Petit de Grat, 

 Cape Breton, N.S., shooting one Red-breasted Mer- 

 ganser — Fine $10.00. 



Geoffrey Jeffries, Louidale, Richmond Co., Cape 

 Breton, N.S., shooting one Red-breasted Merga;i- 

 ser— Fine $10.00. 



Murray Wilson, New Waterford, Cape Breton. 

 N.S., shooting a Black Guillemot — Fine $10.00. 



Frederick Mason, Tancook Islands, N.S., shoot- 

 ing Mergansers in P.E.L — Fine $10.00. 



Marcus Schnare, Tancook Islands, N.S., shoot- 

 ing Mergansers in P.E.L— Fine $10.00. 



Sabean Allen, Upper Cape, Westmoreland Co., 

 N.B., shooting a Merganser — case dismissed. 



Lloyd Smith, Chebogue, Yarmouth Co., N.S., 

 possession of Canada Geese — ^Fine $40.00 and 

 costs. 



Harold Cain, Arcadia, Yarmouth Co., N.S., 

 shooting at a Bittern — Fine $10.00 and costs. 



James Paynter, Clinton, P.E.L, selling Canada 

 Geese — Fine $10.00 and costs. 



James Paynter, Clinton, P.E.L, possession of 

 parts of Canada Geese — case dismissed. 



Wesley Paynter, French River, P.E.L, posses- 

 sion of Canada Geese — Fine $10.00 and costs. 



Charles Paynter, Long River, P.E.L, possession 

 of Canada Geese — case dismissed. 



Robert Gibbles, Petite Lamec, Shippigan, N.B., 

 serving Canada Goose at meals — case dismissed. 



Northwest Game Act. 

 Peter Alexey (Indian) Husky River, for killing 

 Mountain Sheep — Penalty— 7 sheep hides, 1 head 

 and carcasses. Seized and forfeited. 



Accessions to the Museum of the Geo- 

 logical Survey, Canada— The Museum of the 

 Geological Survey, the de facto if not the de jure 

 National Museum of Canada has received lately 

 two donations of more than ordinary importance. 



One is from Mr. W. E. Saunders, of London. 

 Ont., well known as an enthusiastic and public 

 spirited naturalist. It consists of duplicates which 

 in a life-time's work he has naturally gathered in 

 his private collecting and which he feels would fill 

 a larger sphere of usefulness in the National col- 

 lections. They number 922 bird and 103 mammal 

 skins. The great value of this particular collection 

 lies in the fact that it contains many specimens 

 collected at comparatively early dates and represent 

 conditions passed beyond recall and upon which 

 we have little or no other data. 



The other contribution was made by Mr. Ernest 

 Thompson Seton, who is too well known to re- 

 quire particular personal mention here. It consists 

 of some 102 bird skins and an important collection 

 of zoological books and pamphlets. The former 

 is more notable from the original and unique records 

 it contains than for numbers and the latter includes 

 many rare papers and the proceedings of some 

 small or defunct learned societies that are difficult 

 to obtain. 



These donations form valuable additions to our 

 National collections which constitute the basis of 

 exact ornithological work in Canada and as such 

 will be of assistance to all present and future 

 ornithological workers in the Dominion. 



P. A. Taverner. 



The Name of the "English Sparrow" — The 

 House Sparrow, of Europe, since its introduction 

 into America, has been so popularly called the 

 "English Sparrow" that it hardly seems worth 

 while to endeavor to return to the correct designa- 

 tion. Since the beginning of the war, however, 

 there have been some suggestions of obvious intent, 

 to call this undesirable citizen the "Prussian Spar- 

 row." The proposal however is purely academic 

 and there seems little chance that a name so firmly 

 established can be changed in current usage even 

 by the best intentions of the loyal friends of Eng- 

 land. During the war, however, there have been 

 some changes in the scientific name of this bird 

 that are interesting to the general public as well 

 as the nomenclaturist. 



In Falco. No. 2, Dec. 2, 1905, Kleinschmidt, 

 of obvious nationality, separated the bird of the 

 British isles from the continental form under the 

 name of Passer hostHis thus commemorating to some 

 degree the Song of Hate in scientific nomenclature. 

 H. C. Oberholser, Auk. 1917, 329. states that 



