Sept. 1887.] 



AND OC 



self have often regaled them with bits of cold 

 hominy. It Is a popular fallacy to speak of 

 birds as " strictly insectivorous " and the like. 

 : Very few species will always confine them- 



selves to one class of food. A still greater 

 error is to divide all birds into useful and de- 

 structive. This subject is too wide and impor- 



anorse, wJiicri had 'Beei^pIa6e&lTf a^rait^^-ee. i>'>istrate one 



in the nests of Clill' Swallows, and witj^'i'n an 



old shoe lodged in a tree." 

 A pair of Western Robins {Mcrvln. inhji-ntaria 



propinqtia) selected a hanging iuiskpl, 



edge of a veranda, in which to build the 



and a California Bluebird, {Sialia me 



built in the nest of a Cliff Swallow. 



I tlie 

 lest; 

 nna) 



A Visit to Haute Island in the Bay 

 of Fundy, July 26th, 1887. 



to my little 

 eiy partial to 

 las a flg tree 

 iestructive of 

 ler do his flgs 

 igbirds flock 

 as up his old 

 >r hours, and 

 lod shot too. 

 lount up into 



BY WATSON 1.. 



SHOP, KENTVII.r.E, N. S. 



Leaving Hall's Harbor on the south side of 

 the Bay of Fundy at 5,30 a. m., we made our 

 way in a small sailing vessel for the above 

 named island, about twenty miles distant, and 

 although we had scarcely any wind and were 

 at a further disadvantage on account of fog, 

 we readied the ishuid a little before 10 o'clock, 

 and aftei' landing with our supplies went to the 

 Boat House, a small building down by the 

 shore on the north-east side of the island, had 

 a lunch and started to explore. 



Our party, five in iiumber, consisted of one 

 geologist, one pleasure seeker, and th ree ama- 

 teur ornithologists, myself among the latter. 

 I will here give a short description of the 

 island that the reader may better understand 

 the object of our visit. 



In the first place, it is nine miles to the near- 

 est land, Cape Chigenecto on the north; it is 

 about one-third of a mile wide and over a mile 

 in length. It is nearly four hundred feet high 

 \ 



f so far. Just 

 ^t about home 

 i from my to- 



lame for this 

 f the notes of 

 of what is 

 melody. I 

 ;he sea beach ; 

 he cry of sea- 

 ercatcher and 

 song. I once 

 ien he treated 

 the whistling 

 leps. Another 

 that overhangs 

 lost skilful 

 infant porkers 

 onsiderably in 

 lis t(> increase 

 The pres- 

 p-ouiig bird and 

 irol have only 

 if the Cardinal 

 jonpariel. The 

 Per to complete 

 t he was out of 

 id. Not so my 

 i of his little 

 there seems to 

 a completeness 

 ir exceeds the 



origmai. jsiven lub ..Ad anxious cry 



of the mother bird has a certain charm about 

 it when rightly studied. It resembles a thin 

 slice from the discordant squall of her cousin 

 the Catbird, but smoothed off and finished in a 

 way to suit ner own fastidious taste. 



O.&O. XII, Sept. 1887 P.146 -/V^ 



