Correspondence from Toronto Field Naturalists 
     
    
   
   
    
     On August 2l, l976, I received a letter from Harold Taylor, Chairman of the 
     
     Public Relations Committee of the Toronto Field Naturalists. He said that 
     
     he found our “Winds of Sea and Wood“ in a Charlottetown bookstore and 
     
    

    
     “part of the enjoyment that resulted was a trip to the Moore Sanctuary”. 
     
    

    
     He indicated a wish to exchange newsletters with us as their society, like 
     
     ours, has a table for publications from other naturalists groups. He sent 
     
     two sample newsletters which I will circulate at the October meeting. After 
     
     perusing these, I'm sure you will feel that we would profit from such an 
     
     exchange. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Kathy Martin 
     
     Biology Department 
     
     U.P.E.|. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Correspondence from Canadian Nature Federation 
     
    
   
   
    
     The financial position of the CNF has greatly strengthened and it is now able to 
     
     progress more freely with its development program. They have sent our society 
     
    

    
     a letter inviting us to submit an application (or applications) for funds for 
     
    

    
     a project which we would be interested in conducting. The nature of the project 
     
     would ideally be a joint grant application in which funds would come from the 
     
     Provincial government, a P.E.l. based foundation or corporation, or private monies 
     
     as well as financial imput from the C.N.F. In our application we would have to 
     
     consider who will administer the funds and how would the responsibility of the 
     
     execution of the project be handled. There are many projects on P.E.I. which 
     
     are urgently needed, which would be interesting and enjoyable to do. At our 
     
     October meeting, please come with some ideas and we will discuss which would 
     
     betin'top priorities. Since I am P.E.l.'s representative director for CNF, 
     
    

    
     I will provide the liaison between the Natural History Society and CNF on 
     
    

    
     Such a project. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Kathy Martin 
     
     Biology Department 
     
     U.P.E.I. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Charlottetown Wildlife 
     
    
   
   
    
     The editor would like to compile sightings of birds and mammals sighted within 
     
    

    
     the limits of Charlottetown. Already there are a few people who keep records at 
     
     their bird feeders. There is a paucity of records on wild mammals living in 
     
     Charlottetown. If enough sightings are submitted, I would be willing to summarize 
     
     these in an article in a future newsletter issue. Please send sightings to: 
     
    
   
   
    
     Kathy Martin 
     
     Biology Depa rtmen t 
     
     U.P.E.l. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     The Blue Jay - Our Candidate Provincial Bird 
     
    
   
   
    
     Francis Bain, our renowned naturalist from the Nineteenth Century expreses his 
     
     opinion on the Blue Jay, our choice for Provincial Bird: 
     
    
   
   
    
     The bright-plumed jay is one of our most familiar birds. In 
     
     winter he comes, like a chieftain from the wilds, with gay 
     
     crest and dainty steps, picking up refuse at Our doors. Stray 
     
     nuts in the forest afford him food now, too. In summer, he 
     
     feeds more luxuriously, robbing the nests of feebler birds 
     
    

    
     and devouring their helpless young. It is part of his foraying