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of Canadian naturalists, Messrs. Billings, Barnston, 

 Hall, Vennor and D'Urban, founded in Montreal a 

 monthly magazine, the Canadian Naturalist and 

 Geologist. This valuable store - house of many good 

 . things flourished for twelve years ; it 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 Kingston 

 furnished, in 1866, a list of Canadian birds observed 

 by Mr. Thos. Mcllwraith, round Hamilton. In 1868, 

 an industrious entomologist, the Eev. Abbe* Louis Pro- 

 vencher, started at Quebec a monthly publication : Le 

 Naturoliste Canadien, which he kept up with a legis- 

 lative subsidy for fourteen years. Canadian birds often 

 found a corner in it, thought not a large one. In 1883, 

 Mr. C. E. Dionne, the taxidermist of the Laval Univer- 

 sity, brought out a useful volume Les Oiseaux du 

 Canada. Six years later, in 1889, he supplemented it 

 with a " Catalogue des Oiseaux de la Province de 

 Quebec. " We owe to Messrs. J. A. Morden, of Hyde 

 Park, London, Ont., and W. E. Saunders, also of Lon- 

 don, Ont., carefully prepared notes on the feathered 

 tribes of Western Canada, whilst an erudite Fellow of 

 the Eoyal 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, The Canadian Sport- 

 sman and Naturalist, to which for three years, our lead- 

 ing field-naturalists and amateurs generally contributed 

 useful notes and observations. Amongst other valu- 

 able records, it contains Mr. Ernest T. Wintele's list 

 of birds observed round Montreal, with spicy discussions 

 and correspondence, over the signature of Dr. J. H. 

 Gamier, Mr. Lett and the Rev. Vincent Clementi. In 

 1886, that veteran field-naturalist, Thomas Mcllwraith, 

 of Hamilton, Ont., published his excellent treaties : The 



