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The Ottawa Naturalist. 



[Nov, 



Nuthatch Aug. 



House Wren " 



Pied-billed Grebe Oct. 



American Bittern " 



Snow Bunting " 



Black and White Warbler : . " 



Flicker " 



Yellow-bellied Sapsucker " 



Fox Sparrow " 



American Hawk Owl 



Wilson's Thrush 



Great Blue Heron " 



American Goldeneye " 



Ring-billed Gull Nov. 



Northern Shrike " 



Brant " 



Baldpate " 



Bufflehead " 



Scoup Duck Dec. 



Snowv Owl " 



19 1. 



19 1. 



4 1. 



4 1. 



4 several. 



4 1. 



8 1. 



9 1. 



9 several. 



9 1. 



22 in numbers. 



28 1. 



28 several. 



3 1. 



4 1. 

 7 1. 

 7 4. 



7 several. 



1 in numbers. 



15 2. 



ANT ROADS. 



By Charles Macnamara, Arnprior, Ont. 



Ant roads are probably not uncommon in this country, but 

 as they are generally hidden by the grass, and sometimes run 

 underground for considerable distances, they are not often notic- 

 ed except by those looking expressly for them. Tropical insects, 

 we are told, build paths six inches wide on which a man can 

 easily walk. Our native ants cannot boast of any such elaborate 

 works as these, but they nevertheless construct what are doubt- 

 less for them very important highways. 



The prime object of the roads is to make some food supply 

 easily accessible, generally to reach some shrub or tree infested 

 by aphides, of whose sweet excretion the ants are very fond. 

 Such are the objective points of a couple of these roads in the 

 vicinity of Arnprior, built by an ant which Mr. Arthur Gibson 

 tells me is the Campanotus pennsylvanicus . The roads, which 

 are situated in a level open field edged by small pines and spruce, 

 look like tiny well-worn paths. They are about three-eighths 

 of an inch wide, and are sunken about half an inch into the soil. 

 One is some 85 ft. and the other about 1 10 ft. long, and they run 

 parallel to each other about 140 ft. apart. There are numerous 



