or original investigation is made. The aim has been 
to make a list which might serve as a working basis 
for the young bird students who, it is to be hoped, will 
be found in our schools through the teaching of Nature 
Study. To know what others have found and studied 
in the years gone by should stimulate and direct the 
intelligent observations of bird students of this gener¬ 
ation. As the records are more or less incomplete, 
birds reported as occuring about the Gulf in New Brun¬ 
swick, Nova Scotia and Newfouudland have been in¬ 
cluded with a question mark. In the preparation of 
the list the valuable help of Mr. G. McLaren, a student 
at Prince of Wales College is acknowledged. 
As the lists from which the compilation has been 
made are not very recent, and conditions on the Island 
and adjacent land areas have undergone recent changes 
in the clearing of forests and the readjustment of agri¬ 
culture, it is not improbable that unlisted birds may be 
visitors with us now, and that birds formerly known, 
are known no longer. New discoveries should be re¬ 
ported, or suggestions for revision of the lists should 
be made to the Rural Science Department , Prince of 
Wales College. The schools of the Island might in this 
way co-operate in useful educational work. 
Arrangements may be made for printing the list as 
a School Circular. In such cases teachers will be able 
to secure copies for their pupils who should insert them 
in their Rural Science note books and make use of them 
as a Check List. Further announcements will be made 
of this matter. 
Explanation of Numbers and Letters. —The 
number given for each bird is that official number fixed 
by the American Ornithological Union; this number 
makes it very convenient to look up references in bird 
books. In describing the length of residence of each 
bird, R means that the bird remains throughout the year; 
V. that occasional brief visits are known ; S.R. that the 
bird is a summer resident, i.e. comes from the south in 
the spring, nests and rears a brood and departs in the 
fall ; W.R. that the bird is a winter resident , i.e. comes 
from the north and remains throughout or for a 
portion of the winter; M. that the bird passes through 
migrating north in the spring and again usually,south in- 
the fall. Where no exact record of the bird’s appearance 
in the Island has been found,but it is reported as observe 
ed about the Gulf and in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick 
and Newfoundland, the name has been inserted in the 
list. The sizes are given in inches ; in some cases 
such as the hawks, the females are longer than the 
males but the lengths given are for the males. 
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