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We shoot all we see around the premises, but it is 
expensive, as there are always new arrivals, especially in 
the spring and summer time, during the nesting season. 
As long as they are allowed to breed unmolested in 
villages, towns and cities, they will stock and pest the 
surrounding country, no matter how diligently the farmer 
may shoot them. | 
Their extermination ought to be encouraged by premiums 
being paid for their destruction ; and in places where multi- 
tudes are congregated together, large numbers of them 
might be destroyed by shooting, poisoning, or trapping. 
Laws affording protection to the English sparrow should 
be repealed, and instead, parties appointed to pay a bounty 
on all sparrows killed, as well as on all nests and eggs 
destroyed, thereby helping to free the land from an evil as 
quickly as possible, before we lose too many of our most 
beautiful and useful insect-eating native birds, which are a 
blessing to the farmer, gardener and fruit-grower, and all 
who depend on them for a subsistence. 
THE Utica TERRANE IN CANADA. 
By Henry M. Ami, M.A., F.G.S., of the Geological Survey of Canada. 
INTRODUCTION. 
The following remarks on the Utica formation in Canada 
are put forth by the writer, not only in the hope of bringing 
together and recording a series of facts obtained regarding 
the history of this interesting formation, but also with the 
express purpose of arriving at some definite and decided 
conclusion as to the true horizon and age to which certain 
slates and associated strata belong, occurring in the highly 
disturbed and faulted regions of North-Hastern America, 
which have been referred to several horizons by various 
writers, and more recently placed in the “‘ Quebec Group” 
of Sir William Logan—on paleontological, stratigraphical 
and lithological grounds. 
To accompany this essay, or thesis, a table has been 
