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BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
February 28 .— On Bird Classification, by Mr. A. Gordon Leavitt. 
March 14.— On] Types of Insects', by Wm. McIntosh. 
March 21 and 28. — On Fishes, Reptiles and Frogs, by Mr. Chas. F. B. 
Rowe. 
Publications. 
The twenty-third Bulletin of our Society has been issued and 
copies sent to the members of the local legislature of New Bruns- 
wick and to other Societies. It contains many articles of interest 
on the natural history of this Province. Dr. W. F. Ganong con- 
tinues in this issue his notes on the Natural History and 
Physiography of New Brunswick in addition to papers by other 
members. 
Ornithology. 
The numbers refer to the list of birds printed in Bulletin 
No. 1, 1883. 
Species which occur in St. John and Kings counties : 
1 15. — White Gyrfalcon *( Hier falco gyrfalco candicans) now 
Falco islandus). 
The only evidence of the occurrence of 'this bird in this 
vicinity given consists of reports from persons who were certain 
they had seen it, but it now affords me much pleasure to record 
the taking of a beautiful female, on January 13th in the vicinity 
of the ’'one mile house/’ St. John County, by A. L. McIntosh. 
This specimen is extremely dark and would, no doubt, 
answer the descriptions given of (Falco rusticolus obsolete) by 
Cowes, Ridgway and others, but, at present, I prefer to follow 
Mcllwraith who claimed that there was but one species, and not 
two and also two sub-species. 
197. — Ruddy Duck (Erismatura rubida) Ordinarily considered 
a rare bird. 
I reported a male and female in Bulletin XVI (Page 74), a 
female in Bulletin XVII (Page 170). 
Note — During October 1905 I saw in the country-market 
eighteen specimens of this bird, most of which came from French 
Lake, Sheffield. 
179. — Pintail (Dafila acuta). 
