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Lawrence. The Jesuit, Le Jeune, in the “ Rélations des 
Jésuites” for 1632, dwells on the multitudes of aquatic 
birds infesting Ile aux Oies (county of Montmagny), and 
frequenting the shores of our noble river. Friar Gabriel 
Sagard Theodat that same year furnished in his ‘Grand 
Voyage au Pays des Hurons,” a list of Canadian birds. In 
1636, he notices, among other things, some of the leading 
species, such as jay, eagle, crane, etc., and has left us a 
lovely piece of word-painting in his glowing description of 
the Humming-bird. It was too quaint, too fascinating, not 
to be preserved. You will find it reproduced at page 217 of 
my “ Album du Touriste.” In 1663, Pierre Boucher, gover- 
nor of Three—Rivers, in an agreeably written memoir, ad- 
dressed the 8th October, 1663, to Minister Colbert, depicted 
the birds, mammals, fishes, etc., of New France. This 
memoir has been recently reprinted by a lineal descendant 
of the learned and venerable governor, the late Edward F. 
(Boucher) Montizambert, in his lifetime, law clerk to the 
Senate of Canada, and father of Col. Charles and Dr. Fred- 
erick Montizambert of Quebec. In volume I of Baron la 
Hontan’s ‘‘ Voyages to North America,” published in France 
in 1703, there occurs an annotated “ List of the Fowls or 
Birds that frequent the South Countries of Canada,” and 
also, a second “ List of the Birds of the North Countries of 
Canada,”” Father Charlevoix, in 1725, devotes a few pages 
of his voluminous history to the Canadian fauna. Peter 
Kalm, the Swedish savant, the friend of Governor La Galis- 
soniére and guest at his Chateau St. Louis at Quebec, in 
an edition of his travels republished in London, in 1770-7', 
gives plates of American birds and mammals. Thomas 
Jefferys, geographer to H. R. H. the Prince of Wales, in an 
elaborate folio volume, issued in London in 1760, devoted a 
few pages to the birds of Canada. The year 1831 gave us 
Swainson and Richardson’s standard work on the birds of 
the fir countries, ‘Fauna Boreali-Americana.” In 1853 
Hon. G. W. Allan, of Toronto, furnished a list of the land 
birds wintering in the neighborhood of Toronto. In 1857, 
a committee of Canadian naturalists, Messrs. Billings, Barns- 
