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EXCURSION TO CUMBERLAND, ONT. 



The third general excursion of the Club was held at Cum- 

 berland, a pretty village situated on the Ottawa River, Ontario 

 side, some twenty miles below the Capital. It was the first tim.e 

 in the history of the Club that Cumberland had been visited and 

 although the attendance was not large, nevertheless, those who 

 took part or were present, all speak in glowing terms of the 

 beauty of the view and surroundings as well as of the many 

 interesting natural features of special \ alue to a field naturalist. 

 Three members of the Council and Leaders were present and 

 considerable work done. 



In Ornithology Miss Ballant}-ne noted the occurrence of 

 not less than twenty-five birds during the da}, whilst Miss M. 

 Whyte prepared a list of the flowering plants noticed along the 

 face and on the top of the escarpment south of the \illage and 

 along the roadsides and shore of the Ottawa, on behalf of the 

 Botanical section. Mr. Andrew Halkett, as Leader in general 

 Zoology, made notes of observations en squirrels, chipmunks, 

 slugs, millipedes and spiders, besides a number of butterflies. 

 Amongst these were : White admiral (Limenitis Arthemis). 



Milk-weed butterfly (Danais Archippus), Yellow butterfly 

 (Colias philodice). White Cabbage butterfly (Picris raptp.) 



Regarding the Chipmunk [Jaiuias st?iatus, Linn.,) Mr. 

 Halkett writes : — " An interesting sight was a Chipmunk at his 

 burrow which was a regular hillock with both entrance and 

 exit. The entrance was constructed of sticks and stones." 



Two Cyprinoids were secured by Mr. Halkett for exami- 

 nation, from a pool adjacent to the Ottawa caused b\' the 

 receding of the water. 



GE0L0(;v. — The strata between the Ottawa ri\er front and 

 the top of the hill south of Cumberland afford perhaps the most 

 perfect undisturbed and continuous section of Pala::ozoic rocks 

 in the Ottawa Valle\' in a vei}- ccmpact and easii)- accessible 

 form and limited space. The Calciferous, Chazy, Birds' Eye 

 and Black ri\er and Trenton formations were all obser\ed and 

 examined in their natural sequence. 



