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suppose further or draw the conclusion that this forest fre must 
have taken place at some period when the aborigines were settled 
in the locality visited, a time probably remote from the present by 
several hundreds of years. 
The markings on the pottery are very similar to those ob- 
served on the pots from the township of Eardley, in Quebec, north 
of Lake Deschénes, which area was inhabited during pre-historic 
times by the Hurons as well as the Iroquois, as various writers 
on the subject admit. (Consult Parkman, Sulte, Gérin, Sowter 
and other writers.) Ihave been informed that at the time when 
the Castleman family moved from the United States to Canada 
after the Revolution of 1776, a number of Iroquois Indians accom- 
panied them and were faithful to their lord and master, to the 
point of strong rivalry and even engagements between them and 
the Hurons dwelling on the Papineau estates on the north shore 
of the Ottawa river, in the vicinity of the North Nation river. 
The Ornithological Branch reports that several of the leaders 
of this branch have been active during the last year making 
observations of our birds in the field and duly recording their 
observations. It has been found, that the local breeding shrike 
is the newly made. subspecies ‘‘ Migrant Shrike” Zanzvs migrans, 
the habits and nests of which have been studied. Among the 
rarer birds to be recorded from this neighborhood may be men- 
tioned a Golden Eagle, captured near High Falls, Qve., a Cor- 
morant-and.a White Pelican, the latter two taken wthin a radius 
of several miles from Ottawa. The rare Bohemian Waxwing 
(Ampelis garrulus) has once again been seen by the Messrs. G. 
and E. White. 
The Botanical Branch has done excellent work during the 
year. The semi-monthly meetings of the Branch began in the 
autumn and have been continued during the winter. Reports of 
these meetings, published in THE NATURALIST, are abundant evi- 
dence of the activity of the botanical members of the Club and of 
the value of their work. Botanical leaders were present at all the 
Club’s excursions-and as usual were kept busy determining speci- 
mens and explaining difficult points to students. 
The Entomologists of the Club-have been active and some of 
_ the leaders always took part in the various excursions, helping 
