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of oats at Cote St. Paul, and judging by their numbers they 
must have done considerable damage. 
Before the advent of the sparrow, the tree, or white- 
bellied swallow, Tachycineta bicolor, was common in the city, 
nesting in boxes put up for their benefit. Now, when they 
arrive in spring, they find the sparrows in possession of the 
boxes, and are forced to return to their original habit of 
nesting in holes in trees. <A few years ago a large colony 
of cliff swallows, Petrochelidon lunifrons, nested beneath the 
eaves of a farmhouse at Céte St. Luc, but I learn that the 
sparrows have ejected these also, and they probably harass 
and annoy the yellow warblers and song sparrows, which 
certainly are not nearly so frequently heard within the city 
as in former years. 
ON A SPECIES OF GONIOGRAPTUS FROM THE LEVIS 
FORMATION, LEVIS, QUEBEC.’ 
By Henry M. Amt, M.A., F.G\S. (London and America). 
In Vol. XVIII of the Annals and Magazine of Natural 
History, 1876, p. 128 et seg., Prof. F. McCoy recorded the 
discovery of a “new Victorian graptolite” from “the 
black and red slates of the Llandeilo flags age of the 
Bendigo goldfield, Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia.” 
In this communication Prof. McCoy describes and figures 
this new graptolite under the name of Didymograpsus 
Thureani and concludes by proposing the genus ‘ Gonio- 
graptus,” which as he says: ‘‘might be suggested for such 
types as the present, in which the branches of the funicle 
(for which I would suggest the name stolons) are angularly 
bent at the points of budding into the celluliferous stems.” 
One year later, the same author described and figured 
more elaborately the same species in Decade V, of the 
“ Geological Survey of Victoria”—Prodromus of the 
Palxontology of Victoria, pp. 39 and 40 where the species 
"Published by permission of the Director of the Geological 
Survey of Canada. 
