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containing so many Hudson River species, and I consider they may 

 be looked upon as birds of passage only. 



On glancing over the list of specimens collected by the officers 

 of the Canadian Survey, I find Xamerella Ops omitted in the lower 

 subdivision but credited to a succeeding one. It is very numerous 

 and remarkably well preserved in a miniature cliff about six feet high, 

 at the head of the bay near the western horn or entrance. Ascoce- 

 ras, Beatrecea, Halysites, etc., occur in an upper part at the other 

 side of the harbor near Eagle Cape. When I visited the island, 

 a road, over which I travelled, was in course of construction along 

 the shore from English Bay. The locality can be now easily 

 reached by land. 



As you may find in Richardson's report all necessary informa- 

 tion regarding the organic remains of the remaining part of the 

 Anticosti group, I need say nothing more on the matter. Between 

 Jupiter River and the South West Point Lighthouse, an interesting 

 section of the higher body may be remarked abounding in Trilo- 

 bites. Corals and Brachiopods. On the north shore Charleston 

 Point presents numerous Crinoids (Hudson River) and remarkably 

 well preserved Brachiopods. The cliff has a considerable slope 

 near the eastern curve, and many of the layers, thin limestone and 

 shales, can be examined from a platform at some distance above 

 the base. The cliff is only one hundred feet high, an inferior ele- 

 vation when we consider the abrupt perpendicular rise of others on 

 the northern shore of the island. If you stand on the lake shore, 

 imagine what we call the mountain towering above you, then almost 

 double its height, and you may comprehend the meaning of elevation 

 above the ocean surface of many of the Anticosti rocky wall-like 

 elevations. The gradual ascent of a mountain chain, however steep, 

 fails to impress one as regards its altitude in the same way as the 

 sheer perpendicular height of the canons of Colorado or the bluffs of 

 Anticosti. Soaring considerably above the noisy gull, attending a 

 school of herring or mackerel, and carrying havoc into their ordered 

 lines, you may notice occasionally a small white speck far up in the 

 sky. It poises itself for an instant over a particular spot, then 

 comes a flash as if a white rock had suddenly been dropped from 

 above, then a considerable time after the splash and report you 

 may notice the gannet or gander (Solan goose), Sola Bassana, 

 emerging from the sea with the hooked bill firmly grasping the 



