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ton, Hall, Vennor and D’Urban founded in Montreal a 
monthly magazine, the Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, 
now the Canadian Record of Science. This valuable store- 
house of many good things is still of daily reference. Three 
years later, in 1860, I published at Quebec, under the title 
‘“ Ornithologie du Canada,” in two volumes, the first French 
work published in Canada on Canadian birds. Professor 
Wm. Hincks of Toronto furnished, in 1866, a list of Cana- 
dian birds observed by Mr. Thomas Mellwraith about 
Hamilton. In 1868, an industrious entomologist, the Rev. 
Abbé Louis Provancher, started at Quebec a monthly pub- 
lication, Le Naturaliste Canadien, which he kept up, with a 
legislative subsidy, for fourteen years. Canadian birds 
often found a corner in it, thouyh nota large one. In 1883, 
Mr. C. E. Dionne, the taxidermist of the Laval University, 
brought out a useful volume, “ Les Oiseaux du Canada.” 
Six years later, in 1889, he supplemented it with a ‘Cata- 
logue des Oiseaux de la Province de Québec,” We owe to 
Messrs. J. A. Morden of Hyde Park, London, Ont., and 
W. E. Saunders, also of London, Ont., carefully prepared 
notes on the feathered tribes of Western Canada, whilst a 
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Dr. J. Bernard 
Gilpin of Nova Scotia, drew attention to the birds of prey of 
his native province. In 1881, William Couper published, in 
Montreal, a valuable little monthly journal, Zhe Canadian 
Sportsman and Naturulist, to which for three years our 
leading field naturalists and amateurs generally contributed 
most useful notes and observations. Amongst other valu- 
able records, it contains Mr. Ernest T. Wintle’s list of 
birds observed round Montreal, with discussions and corre- 
spondence over the signature of Dr. J. H. Garnier, Mr. 
Lett and the Rev. Vincent Clementi. In 1886, that veteran 
field naturalist, Thomas McIlwraith of Hamilton. Ont., pub- 
lished his excellent treatise, ‘‘ The Birds of Ontario.” The 
book was favorably reviewed in the Auk by the eminent 
Dr. Elliott Coiies, who unhesitatingly placed Mr. McIlwraith 
‘“‘in the first place in his own field.” I have previously 
dwelt on the invaluable works on the Canadian fauna by 
