164 The Ottawa Naturalist. [November 



AN UNUSUAL VISITOR TO THE EXPERIMENTAL 



FARM. 



On Friday morning, the 22nd of NoA'ember, about 11 

 o'clock, a fine female Virginian deer suddenly made its appear- 

 ance on the Experimental Farm. When first I saw it, it was 

 bounding across the Farm, south of the Director's house. It 

 ran forward across the main driveway towards the river road. 

 Then turning it ran northward a few yards, then across the Farm 

 north of the Director's house towards the poultrv buildings. 

 Here I lost track of it and saw it no more. I subsequentlv learned 

 that it ran from there towards the northern boundary of the 

 Farm, where there is a Forest Belt 65 feet wide in which it found 

 temporary shelter. It made several attempts to get over the 

 wire fence along the boundary of the Farm, and finally got its 

 head entangled in the wires so that it was held fast. In making 

 further attempts to extricate itself, it tried to leap over the 

 fence and in doing so was much injured and was almost dead 

 when discovered by two German women living nearbv, who 

 finalty despatched the animal and took possession of it. 



The occurrence of such large v/ild animals near cities and 

 large towns is always interesting, and generally attracts a good 

 deal of attention. During the previous day, in the afternoon, 

 several shots were heard near the Farm, and it is not at all 

 improbable that the deer was being hunted and had taken 

 refuge over night in a part of the Forest Belt above referred to. 

 When I saw it, it was very quick in its movements. 



Wm. vSaunders. 



CHUBBS" NESTS. 



In the May number of the ' American Naturalist" of this 

 year, Dr, A. W. G. Wilson presents an interesting note on the 

 characters and location of nests made by the fishes described as 

 Chubb {Semotilus corporalis, Mitchill). Dr. Wilson gives ex- 

 cellent illustrations of the nests themselves which attain a 

 height of nearly four feet, and are made up of stones of various 

 sizes. The name which the Indians give the fish in question, . 

 Azvadosi, seems to be particularlv appropriate, inasmuch as ' 

 the word signifies "the stone carriers." The heaps of rocks 

 observed and described by Dr. Wilson are rather conspicuous 

 phenomena, and could be' readily mistaken for cairns or other 

 accumulations which have a semblance to artificial construction. 



H. M. A. 



