Io6 Batchelder on Birds of the Upper St. John. 
by J. H. Carnell, taxidermist, and a flock of some six or eight seen by Mr. 
Henry Gilbert on the Kenebecasis River in August, 1880, from which he 
obtained a male and female. 
19. iSthyia vallisneria. — Canvas-back.— Carnell has mounted one 
of this species taken within the Province, and E. C. Sutton, Esq., of Sut- 
ton, who is familiar with their appearance, saw a flock on the St. John 
River, about four miles from the city, several times during the fall of 1879. 
20. Pelecanus erythrorhynchus. American White Pelican. — One 
of these birds in the collection of the Natui-al History Society was shot on 
the shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence near Pt. du Chene by Mr. Robert 
Bustin, and I have very good authority for announcing the occurrence of 
another at Cape Spencer, some five miles east of St. John, during the 
first week in April, 1881. 
NOTES ON THE SUMMER BIRDS OF THE UPPER 
ST. JOHN. 
BY CHARLES F. BATCHELDER. 
During the spring of 1879 Messrs. W. A. Jeffries and J. 
Amory Jeffries spent some time at Gmu 4 >jPalls, New Brunswick, 
collecting and studying the birds of that neighborhood ; and at 
about the same time Mr. J. Dwight, Jr., and myself were similarly 
engaged at Fort Fairfield, Aroostook Co., Maine. 
Owing to the limited time of our staj the number of species 
observed was not large, but as it included almost all the com- 
moner summer residents, — the species really characteristic of the 
fauna of the, region — it has been thought worth while to lay 
the results of our observations before the public, especially as the 
fauna is in some respects peculiar. One might be led to expect, 
from the latitude of the region, that the fauna would be thor- 
oughly Canadian in its character. Our experience shows, how- 
ever, that it has a strong tinge of the Alleghanian. 
Grand Falls is situated on the right bank of the St. John River 
at about N. Lat. 47 0 03', and W. Long. 67° 5c/. The river below 
the falls runs through a narrow valley, almost all of which is 
under cultivation. On the higher land above the falls and about 
the town are farms devoted chiefly to hay, potatoes and buck- 
wheat. The country is hilly, and is scantily watered, the few 
