﻿198 Canadian Record of Science, 



It is interesting to contrast Mr. Wintle's list with Dr. Hall's, 

 Making allowance for the change of nomenclature, the whole 208 

 species embraced in the latter, with the exception of 13, are included 

 by our author as having been lately seen in the district of Montreal, 

 Mr. Wintle's volume embraces 65 additional species, in all 254 kinds of 

 birds that are either permanently resident here, or visit us every year 

 for a longer or shorter period. Of this number, only 1 1 are permanent 

 residents, 16 are winter visitants, 77 are summer visitants, 132 are 

 transient visitants, while as many as 17 are accounted accidental 

 visitants. 



The first 135 pages are occupied with notes on the 254 species 

 described, giving place and date of their capture ; while the next 

 89 pages are taken up with a detailed description of them, to help in 

 their determination by amateur scientists. The closing pages contain 

 some breezy sporting sketches by well known devotees of the gun in 

 the city ; and these give a completeness to the volume which adds 

 to its attractiveness. The publishers have also done their part well ; 

 the general make-up of the book being a credit to Canadian enterprise, 



R. C 



Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Canada. New 

 Series. Vol. VII., 1894. 



This large volume of over 1,200 pages contains, in addition to the 

 Summary Report of the Operations of the Survey for 1894, seven 

 detailed reports on certain portions of the Dominion, and is 

 accompanied by eleven geological maps. The Summary Report shows 

 that geological work is being carried on by the large staff of the Survey 

 in every part of the Dominion. Especial mention is made of the 

 trial borings now being put down at Athabasca Landing in the North- 

 West Territories, where there is good reason to believe large supplies 

 of oil will be obtained from the Devonian rocks at a depth of about 

 1,500 feet. An account is also given of the recent advances in the 

 development of the mining industry of British Columbia, where, of late 

 years, such extensive mineral deposits have been discovered, as well as 

 of the explorations in the Labrador peninsula, carried out by Mr, Low, 

 who has discovered in this inhospitable region deposits of iron ore 

 which are believed to surpass in size any that have hitherto been 

 discovered in North America, 



Of the special reports, two deal with British Columbia, one 

 by Dr, G. M, Dawson, containing a description of a portion of the 

 Interior Plateau of that province in the Kamloops district, and the 

 other by Mr. R. G, McConnell, giving an account of the exploration of 

 the Finlay and Omineca Rivers, These are followed by a report on the 

 country about Red Lake in Keewatin, by Mr. Dowling. The fourth 

 report is by Dr. R. W, P]lls and Dr, F, D, Adams on a portion of the 



