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tone." The Color Chart is somewhat disappointing ; what should be 

 the brighter colors are altogether wanting in brightness. '1 he half-tone 

 plates, however, are all that can be desired. The Clapper Rail, Spotted 

 Sandpiper and Young, Least Flycatcher and Phoebe, Meadowlark, and 

 Wood and Wilson's Thrushes seem almost alive. 



A. G. K. 



Archaeology.- -Notes on the Antiquities of Lark Deschenes. 



Along the shores of Lake Deschenes are many points of Archaeo- 

 logical interest ; and it is in the hope that some of the members of the 

 Field Naturalists' Club may devote their time to a more special investiga- 

 tion of this branch of scientific research that I now call attention to 

 some of them. 



It is needless to say that the Ottawa River, of which this lake is an 

 expansion, was, during the French regime, the great highway between 

 the region of the great lakes and the French settlements on the St. 

 Lawrence. Indians and "coureurs de bois " engaged in the fur trade, 

 as well as governors of Canada, either in voyages of discovery or 

 expeditions against their Indian enemies, traversed the waters of this 

 river. It was at times, also, the objective point of war parties of hostile 

 Iroquois, who, after the subjugation of their Huron kinsmen, carried the 

 tomahawk, in a war of extermination, far into the wilds to the north of 

 the Ottawa. 



Some vi the descendants of the Indians and voyageurs who took 



part in these stirring scenes, connected with the pioneer days of New 



('ranee, are now living in Avlmer and vicinity; and it would be well to 



ire from them the traditions and stories attaching to points of local 



interest before the present generation passes away. 



On the Ontario shore of the lake, at Raymond's point opposite 

 Aylmer, is the site of an old Indian workshop where flint weapons have 

 been fabricated. My attention was first called to it, some time ago, by 

 Jacob Smith of the Interior Department, its discoverer. Mr. Smith 

 shewed the writer some flint arrow heads, and a spear head of the same 

 material, which he had discovered at this place. 



