April, 1922.J 



The Canadian Field-Naturaust 



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held in Washington, Nov. 8-11, we note the names 

 of eight new Canadian Associates. 



Under General Notes: — ■ 



The Horned Grebe at Hatley, Stanstead 

 County, Quebec. By H. Mousley. P. 108. 

 This species is added to the local list. 



The Grasshopper Sparrow in the Montreal 

 District. By L. McI. Terrill. Pp. 115-116. 

 A colony including three singing males is reported 

 from Chambly Co., Que., June 26 and July 5, 1920. 

 Specimens were taken and the record placed on a 

 firm basis. As much cannot be said for an in- 

 cidental record of the Orchard Oriole seen at 

 Lacolle, on the Richelieu River, seasons of 1916 

 and 1920. A Towhee seen at Chambly also on 

 the Richelieu is much less remarkable. 



Additions to the Birds of Lake County, 

 Minnesota. By Chas. E. Johnson, Pp. 124-126. 

 This is in addition to a list for same locality 

 published in Auk, October, 1920. It is interesting 

 to Canadian students as being adjacent to our 

 Rainy River country where no ornithological 

 work has been done, and is suggestive of what 

 may be expected there. It adds seventeen 

 species to the previous list. 



Three Important Records from Hatley, 

 Stanstead County, Quebec. By H. Mousley. 

 Pp. 126-127. 



This reports a re-occurence of Bartramian 

 Sandpiper in the locality, adds the Mourning 

 Warbler to the local list, bringing it to 177 species, 

 and announces the breeding of the Yellow-bellied 

 Flycatcher. 



Ornithological Notes from Southeastern Alas- 

 ka. By Geo. Willett. Pp. 127-129. This is 

 interesting to ornithologists on the west coast. 

 It applies mostly to Prince of Wales Island and 

 the Wrangell neighborhood, and consists of 

 annotations on 18 species, including records of 

 Yellow-billed Loon and Pygmy Owl for the vicini- 

 ty of Wrangell. 



Under Notes and News appears an obituary 

 of Professor John Macoun. 

 No. 2, April:— 



The Nesting of the Philadelphia Vireo. By 

 H. F. Lewis. Continued as previously noted. 



The History and Purposes of Bird Banding. 

 By Frederick C. Lincoln. Pp. 217-228. 



Recent Returns from Trapping and Banding 

 Birds. By S. Prentis Baldwin. Pp. 228-237. 



The Marriage Relations of the House Wren. 

 By S. Prentis Baldwin. Pp. 237-244. 



These are intensely interesting papers. Mr. 

 Baldwin's work has been mentioned in these 

 reviews before. He developed genealogical tables 

 for his wrens and the involved relationships so 

 brought to light are amusing, if rather irregular 

 according to human standards. This banding 



work promises to become one of the most im- 

 portant methods of ornithological investigation. 



The English Sparrow and the Motor Vehicle. 

 By W. H. Bertgold, pp. 244-250. This demon- 

 strates the great reduction of the English Sparrow 

 that has taken place in the city of Denver, Color- 

 ado, since the more general substitution of motor 

 for horse-drawn vehicles. It substantiates a 

 process of relief that has been noted by other 

 observers. 



Sixth Annual List of Proposed Changes in 

 the A.O.U. Check-List of North American Birds. 

 By Harry C. Oberholser. Pp. 264-269. As 

 these are only proposals and have not yet been 

 adopted by the Committee on Nomenclature or 

 affirmed by any considerable body of ornithologists 

 it is necessary to mention only those most im- 

 portant to us. Most of them are purely nomen- 

 clatural. W. S. Brooks describes a new species 

 of Canada Jay from Anticosti Island, Gulf of 

 St. Lawrence, under the name of Perisoreus bar- 

 bouri Brooks, Pro. New Eng. Zool. Club, VII, 

 March 11, 1920, p. 49. Giving this form full 

 specific status is doubtless due to a disregard of 

 the subspecific conception in total. That the 

 slight isolation of Anticosti should develop a 

 recognizable subspecies is remarkable enough. 

 That it should originate a full specise in the 

 present accepted meaning of the term is almost 

 unthinkable. So scanty is the material from this 

 out-of-the-way locality that few if any are able 

 to judge the value of the proposal. The new Cliff 

 Swallow, Petrocheledon albifrons hypopolia Ober- 

 holser, described in these pages, 1919, and suppos- 

 ed to breed from Montana to Alaska is mentioned. 

 It may be well in this connection to state that the 

 present reviewer has compared a considerable 

 series of this bird and can find no such distinctions 

 as is postulated by the describer. Thryomanes 

 bewicki arborius Oberholser. Wilson Bulletin, 

 XXXII, March 27, 1920. A new subspecies of 

 Bewick's Wren is proposed for southwestern 

 British Columbia, replacing in part Vigor's 

 Wren, hitherto attributed to that locality. 



In General Notes appear the following: — 



The Blue Goose in the Province of Quebec. 

 By Harrison F. Lewis. Pp. 270-271. This note 

 records the taking of this rare species at Cap 

 Tourmente, Montmorency Co., P.Q., Oct. 10, 

 1917, and another Oct. 16, 1920. Both specimens 

 were examined mounted by the recorder. The 

 regular migration of this species seems to be down 

 through Manitoba and the interior. Their 

 occurrences are so irregularly distributed as to 

 suggest that they make their long migrational 

 flight from the east side of James and Hudson 

 Bay to the Gulf of Mexico, the only localities 

 where they are known to occur regularly in num- 



