142 Canadian Record of Science. 



Catalogue of Canadian Birds, 

 catalogue of canadian birds, part i.— water birds, 



GALLINACEOUS BIRDS and PIGEONS, including the follow- 

 ing orders: PYGOPODES, LONGIPENNES, TCJBINARES, 

 STEGANOPODES, ANSERES, HERODIONES, PALUDICOLiE, 

 LIMICOL.3E, GALLING and COLUMB^E. By John Macoun, 

 M.A., F. R.S.C., Naturalist to the Geological Survey of Canada 

 Ottawa : 1900. Price, Ten Cents. 



Also PART II. -BIRDS OF PREY, WOODPECKERS, FLY- 

 CATCHERS, CROWS, JAYS and BLACKBIRDS, including the 

 following orders : RAPTORES, COCCYGES, PICI, MACRO- 

 C HIRES, and part of the PASSERES. By the same Author. 

 Ottawa : 1903. Price, Ten Cents. 



Not students of Ornithology alone and sportsmen, but bird-lovers 

 generally, and their name is legion, will be delighted at the appearance 

 of these latest contributions of the veteran Naturalist to the Geological 

 Survey of Canada to the science of the Dominion. Professor Macoun 

 tells us in his preface that he has been collecting materials for these 

 publications since 1879. They are all the more valuable on this account. 

 It was possible to bring together so much information about the birds 

 found in Canada, only after a series of observations continued for many 

 years, by a large number of interested persons, spread over the entire 

 northern half of the continent. The author in this study on Canadian 

 birds has made use of the matter furnished by every other writer 

 on the ornithology of our country, as in his larger works on botany he 

 embodied the published lists of all the plant collectors of Canada, 

 crediting each with what he had appropriated. In addition, he has 

 been fortunate enough to be able to enlist individual observers through- 

 out the Dominion who have furnished him with information not hitherto 

 given to the public, regarding the birds frequenting their neighbour- 

 hood. The aggregate result is that we have mentioned in the two 

 parts of the catalogue indicated above, a complete list of the bird 

 fauna of the Dominion, including Newfoundland, in the several families 

 embraced in these publications. 



Part III. to complete the catalogue, with an index, it is promised, 

 will be issued shortly. 



There are described in Parts I. and II., altogether, the habits, nests 

 and eggs of 463 kinds of birds, 307 in Part I. and 156 in Part II. 

 They are numbered in the catalogue to correspond with the numbers 

 employed in the check-list of the American Ornithologists' Union, for 

 the sake of identification by the ornithologists of the continent. All 

 the species embraced in the afore-mentioned check-list, included in 

 Part I., are found in Canada, with 51 exceptions ; but in addition 

 there are 42 varieties listed. In Part II. there are, of the species 



