58 The Ottawa Naturalist. [June 



in the evening, in suitable localities would in the morning be found 

 to have secured interesting specimens. At most of the fishing 

 clubs it was pointed out this work could be easily done, and speci- 

 mens obtained from widely scattered localities. Professor Macoun 

 offered to give information as to the best traps for the purpose, 

 and it was agreed that the Muridaa, the Soricidas, and the bats 

 formed a most desirable line for the zoologists of the Club. 



Samples of beaver work, with chips of wood, and a skull, 

 from the Algonquin National Park of Ontario, were recently dis- 

 played in the windows of the Messrs. Orme, along with two 

 mounted beavers from the Fisheries Museum, and they attracted 

 much interest by the general public. The samples of the work of 

 those interesting rodents were sent by Mr. Robert Lett, an em- 

 ployee of the Park, and the following is an extract from his letter 

 concerning them : "I am shipping you to-day two samples of 



beaver work The larger of the two shews the tree a 



little more than half way cut through. The cut was towards the 

 water so that their efforts to float or pull it under water to their 

 house after having cut it up into short lengths would be lessened 

 by a tree's length in distance when it came to the carry. Sample 



No. 2 shews a tree which has been felled completely In 



the little tin box you will find some of the chips which these won- 

 derful woodsmen made, when cutting on the larger tree 



I took my lunch in pocket one day and located these samples and 

 on another day took saw and sleigh and brought them in." One 

 of the samples part of a birch-tree was 10 inches in diameter, 

 and the other some 8 ins. in diameter. 



Under protective restrictions, the beaver {Castor canadensis) 

 is multiplying rapidly in the Algonquin Park. Furthermore a 

 colony of those interesting creatures is said to have established 

 itself at Green Creek, some distance away, east of Ottawa, and 

 they ought to be left unmolested. 



. Two red and one silver-gray toxes {Vulpes fulvus) the three 

 from the same litter from about 150 miles north of Maniwaki, 

 Gatineau district, a prairie coyote {Cants latrans) from Edmonton, 

 and two racoons (Procyon lotor) from up the Ottawa near Shaw- 

 ville, P-Q., were recently displayed alive, and all together, in the 

 windows of the Messrs. H. J. Sims & Co. One of the gentlemen \ 



