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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 humm- 

 ing bird. It was too quaint, too fascinating not to be 

 preserved. You will find it reproduced, page 217 of my 

 " Album du Touriste." In 1663, Pierre Boucher, gover- 

 nor of Three Eivers, in an agreeably written memoir, 

 addressed on 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. Frederick 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 

 Kalin, the Swedish savant, the friend of Governor La 

 Galissonniere and guest at his Chateau St. Louis, at 

 Quebec, in 1749, in an edition of his travels republished 

 in London in 1770-71, gives plates of American birds 

 and mammals. Thomas Jefferys, geographer to H. E. H. 

 the Prince of Wales, in an elaborate folio volume, issued 

 in London in 1760, devoted a few pages to 



THE AVI-FAUNA OF CANADA. 



The year 1831 gave us Swainson's and Eichardson'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 1867, a committee 



