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The Canadian Field-Naturalist to Date r I si{i ^oo^O /?3? HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF THE MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY ^^3^3 'Bhe CANADIAN FIELD-NATURALIST VOLUME LII 1938 THE OTTAWA FIELD-NATURALISTS' CLUB OTTAWA. CANADA JAN 12 1938 Si'SJfZ VOL. LII, No. 1 JANUARY. 1938 t.-' « } l^ii.^ S; U B L I S H C>&^(2^< ISSUED JANUARY 6, 1938 Entermd at the Ottawa Post Office a» aecond-ela»* matter Ti\J. — THE OTTAWA FIELD -NATURALISTS' CLUB THEIR EXCELLENCIES THE GOVERNOR GENERAL AND LADY TWEEDSMUIR President: P. A. Tavernbr 1st Vice-President: R. E. DeLury 2nd Vice-President: A. E. PORSILD 'Heeretary: C. R. Lounsbury Treasurer: Wilmot Lloyd, 582 Mariposa Ave., 130 McLeod Street, Ottawa Rockcliffe Park. Additional Members of Council: F. J. Alcock, R. M. Anderson, Rev. F. E. Banim, Henry Bowers, M. E. Cowan, H. G Crawford. F. J. Frasbr, H. Grob, G.H.Hammond, C.E.Johnson, E. M. Kindle, W. H. Lanceley, A. LaRocque, Douglas Leechman, Miss Grace S. Lewis, Harrison F. Lewis, Hoyes Lloyd. Mark G. McElhinney, CM. Sternberg, Malcolm M. Thomson, E. F. G. White, Miss Peggy Whitehurst, R. T. D. Wickenden M E Wilson and the following Presidents of Affiliated Societies : A. G. Lawrence, Charles Maddeford, John Davidson, M. Y. Williams, V. C. Wynne-Edwards, R. Meredith, Arnott M. Patterson. Auditors: W H. Lanceley and Harrison F. Lewis. Editor: Douglas Leechman National Museum, Ottawa, Canada Associate Editors: D. Jbnnbss Anthropology Clyde L. Patch .Herpetology J. Adams Botany R. M. Anderson Mammalogy P. R. Latchford Conchology A. G. Huntsman Marine Biology Arthur Gibson . , Entomology P. A. Taverner Ornithology P J. Alcock. Geology E. M. Kindle Palxontology CONTENTS page Correlation of the Timiskaming Outlier with description of a New Cephalopod. By A. E. Wilson 1 Nesting of the White-Winged Crossbill. By James Bond 3 Vascular Plants from Mansel (Mansfield) Island, N.W.T. By Nicholas Polunin 5 Some Marine Algae from Labrador, Hudson Bay, and Arctic Canada By Hugh P. Bell and Constance MacFarlane 9 Some Marine Algae from Anticosti Island and Gaspe Peninsula. By J. Adams 10 59th Annual Meeting of the Ottawa Field- Naturalists' Club Report of Council 11 Statement of Pinant;ial Standing, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club, at the Close of Year, 1937 13 Notes and Observations: "Helix rufescens" Re-discovered at Ottawa. By G- E. Fairbairn 14 A New Bat for the Toronto Region List. By G. E. Devitt. 14 ::: ::i official The publications of The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club have been issued ijj since 1879. The first were The Transactions of the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club, 1879-1886, jji two volumes; the next, The Ottawa Naturalist, 1886-1919, thirty-two volumes; and these have jJi JDeen continued by The Canadian Field-Naturalist to date. The Canadian Field-Naturalist is jJi issued monthly, except for the months of June, July and August. Its scope is the publication jjj of the results of original research in all departments of Natural History. jjj Price of this volume {9 numbers) $2.00; Single copies 2Si each jjj The Membership Committee of The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club is making a special effort to increase the subscription list of The Canadian Field-Naturalist. We are, therefore, asking every reader who is truly interested in the wild life of our country to help this magazine to its rightful place among t^he leading Natural History publications in America. Subscriptions ($2.00 a year) should be forwarded to * WILMOT LLOYD. Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club, 582 Mariposa Ave., Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa, Canada. Plate I r A L-Ss- 3\3^3 The Canadian Field- Naturalist VOL. LII OTTAWA. CANADA, JANUARY. 1938 No. 1 CORRELATION OF THE TIMISKAMING OUTLIER WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW CEPHALOPOD* By A. E. WILSON * Published with the permission of Director. the The possibility of the Richmond age of the Mines and Geology Branch, Department of Mines and Resources, Ottawa, Canada. Manitoba fauna was first suggested in 1915 by Bassler' in American Ordovician and Silurian HE PALAEOZOIC outlier of Lake Index Fossils. The Richmond age was definitely T Timiskaming, consisting of sediments recognized by the writer in 1925 from fossils of Ordovician and Silurian age, lies found in 18-inch cores of wells drilled a few within the Precambrian shield. Accord- miles north from Winnipeg for the water supply ing to Hume' who studied it in detail, it of that city. Rhynchotrcma capax was present, occupies 250 square miles. and forms very similar to the Richmond IVhttel- la were found by the writer and Miss M. A. In 1935 J. F. Henderson of the Geological Fritz in 1920 in the basal sandstone at Grind- Survey of Canada, found two forms of cephal- stone Point, Lake Winnipeg. This was communi- opoda about 50 feet above the contact of the cated* to Foerste' who recognized the Richmond Precambrian with the basal sandstone of the aspect of the Cephalopoda, but reserved definite- Ordovician near Ville Marie, Quebec, on the ly ascribing the rocks to that age until further east side of Lake Timiskaming. One of these study was completed on the other phyla. He is here described as new. The other is a A^ar- introduced the name Red River for the Manitoby thccoceras which genus has hitherto been found formation. in the Selki k member only of the Red River formation of Manitoba. This reopens the ques- Meanwhile a similar fauna l)rought from tion of the age of the Ordovician beds of the Baffinland by Soper is referred to the Richmond Timiskaming Palaeozoic outlier. The beds in by Wilson". This was later described in more which these fossils were fottnd correspond to tlie detail. About the same time, when discussing more calcareous upper part of the Lower Sand- the cephalopoda of the McMillan expedition to stone member of the Liskeard formation as des- Foxe Peninsula, Baffin Island, Foerste' correlates cribed by Hume. He stated that the Liskea- d them with the Red River fauna but i etains his is of Trenton age, that the 50 feet of red shales reservation as to the age. In the same publica- occurring below the sandstone at one point may tion Hussey" definitely assigns the fauna to the be of Trenton or Black River age, and that a Richmond age. covered interval of 40 feet lying above the .\ similar Arctic fai"''a from Greenland has Liskeard and below the Silurian may be of been described Ivy Troedsson''. Part of it he Richmond age. The whole of the Liskeard was ascril)es definitely to the Richmond and part lie correlated with the Galena-Trenton of Manitcba correlates with the Manitoba fauna which lie as it was then called. Tlie finding of tlie Sar- 3. Bassler, R. S. U.S. National thecoccras sustains Hume's correlation of the Museum Bull. 92, 1915. Liskeard. with the Lake Winnipeg Ordovician. 4. Per.sonal correspondence. l)ut it is now recognized that the Manitoba 5. Foerste. A. F. Deni.son Univ. Bull. 24, p. 1.30. 1929. fauna is of Richmond not of Trenton age, as 6. Wilson, A. E. Geol. Surv. Can. Mus. Bull. 53, was supposed In- Whiteaves'. pp. 124-129, 19^8. Rov. Sac. Canada 3 ser, 25. pp. 285-306. 1928. 7. Foerste, A. F. Univ. Michigan, Con. Mus. Pal. 1. Hume, G. S. Geol. Surv. Canada, Mem. 145. 3, pp. 25-70. 1928. PP. 16, 17. 19'25. S. Huss'.'V, R. C o]). rit. pji. 71-75. • 2. Whiteaves, J. P. Geol. Surv. Canada, Pal. 9. Troed.sson, G. T. Medd. om Oronland. B. 72. > Foss. 3. pi. ?,. 1 S!»7. Xr. 1. p. 14 8. l!)2;i. The Canadian Fiei,d-Naturai.ist [Vol. Lll refers to under the old conception of Galena- obscure. Considered as a siphuncle it has an Trenton. It is probable that the later publi- muisual striation whicli is normally indicative cations had not reached him when preparing his of the external surface of a conch. Considered manuscript. as a conch, not only is the siphuncle not Cox'" recorded the same fauna in Akpatok continuous but, as each camera was superseded Island, Ungava Bay, Labrador and definitely by the progressing living chamber it was considered it to be of Richmond age. completely filled by the siphuncle. In addition, It seems fairly well established, then, that the only periodically spaced septa are connected Manitoba Red River formation is of Richmond with the siphuncle. It is thought, then, that less age. If the correlation of the Timiskaming violence is done to established Cephalopoda by outlier is correct, and the writer believes that considering the specimen a siphuncle. it is, then the Liskeard formation is also of Bndoccratidce Richmond age. Family Genus Heiiderso>iia Wilson, nov. gen. The Richmond age of the Liskeard is still Siphuncle only known. further corroborated by a comparison with the fauna from the outlier at Lake St. John, Quebec. Since the material at hand is fragmentary it The coral fauna of the Lake Timiskaming is difficult to separate generic and specific exposures is closely allied to that of the "Coral cliaracteristics. Those features are given as Reef" horizon of the Lake St. John outcrops generic in whicli it differs most widely from which Foerste" considered to be of Richmond other forms. age. Long, comparatively slender forms ; exterior In 1930, Miller'" in a paper on the "Correla- of conch and septal necks unknown ; exterior of tion of tljc Bighorn Formation", noted the siphuncle longitudinally striated between the simila ity between the faunas of the Liskeard septal scars; endocones apparently double and the lower horizon of the Bighorn suggesting walled, funnel-shaped, rapidly expanding anteri- the possibility that both were younger than the orly and having three supports extending out Trenton.
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