igoi] Campbell — Algonquin Park. 89 



staff of six or seven rangers, were erected during- the summer of 

 1897 on the lake shore just south of the railway track. The 

 rang-ers are supposed to be travelling about most of the time, in 

 order to keep a sharp lookout for trespassers and poachers, and 

 against fires, and to watch especially the waterways and usual 

 entrances to the Park. They incidentally erect shelter-lodges, 

 make other improvements, and wage war on wolves and other 

 noxious animals. ' 



On a rocky point, about fifteen feet above the water, and so 

 embowered in birches and spruces that one might paddle by un- 

 conscious of its presence, stands " Fort Necessity" — one of the 

 shelter-lodges. It is a small, rustic, one-roomed cabin, containing 

 a sheet-iron stove, rude stools and table, and a platform bed the 

 width of the building. The latter will accommodate, if necessary, 

 six men, three at one end and three at the other, lying feet to 



feet. 



The inlet of the lake is near by, and a paddle of half a mile 

 up it brings you to White's Lake, in the vicinity of which — and 

 within the sound of the locomotive whistle — a fine beaver-dum 

 and other works of that exemplary animal can be seen. 



Enough has, doubtless, been said about the Algonquin Na- 

 tional Park to give some idea of its character and resources, and 

 of the great inducements which it offers to the canoeman, the 

 camper, the sportsman, the seeker after rest and health, and the 

 lover of Nature. 



ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES. 

 By W. T. Macoun. 



As announced in the May Naturalist, several observers in 

 different parts of Canada and Michigan have agreed to send in 

 their notes for comparison of records in the Ottawa Naturalist. 

 This arrangement was brought about by Mr. Wm. Saunders, 

 London, Ont., and Dr. James Fletcher ; the notes, however, are 

 being sent to the ornithological editor for tabulation. The gentle- 

 men who contributed the notes are Mr. Alex. Gow, Windsor 

 Ont. ; Mr. Wm. Saunders, London, Ont. ; Mr. J. Hughes 

 Samuel, Toronto, Ont.; Mr. W. P. Melville, Sault Ste. Marie, 

 Mich ; and Mr. L. McI. Terrill, Robinson Bury, Que. 



The records of the common birds should prove of most value 

 as often the rarer species are not seen until some days after 

 their arrival and hence the comparison of records is misleading. 

 Another table of records will appear in a later number of the 

 Naturalist. 



