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at Oden, Crooked Lake, Michigan, with my uncle, G. T. Wil- 

 hamson, and August 11th and 12th, were spent collecting there. 

 Later my cousin, Jesse H. Williamson, caught a few specimens 

 about Oden. These records are mentioned in the lists which 

 follow. 



No birds or mammals were collected. The white-throated 

 sparrows by their numbers and song were the conspicuous mem- 

 bers of the avifauna. A small and exceedingly bold Buteo was 

 frequently seen and heard. At lonely lakes, otherwise devoid 

 of bird life, loons signaled my approach with their weird cries. 

 Kingfishers rattled their displeasure or surpirse at my intrusion 

 along their streams. Flocks of cross-bills* by their habits of 

 flight and voice recalled the flocks of small parrots frequently 

 seen in Central America. And in every thicket were numerous 

 warblers unidentifiable to me without field glass or gun. About 

 every lake and stream were innumerable dainty prints of deers' 

 hoofs, with occasionally the ox-like spoor of the moose. Though 

 an insect collector has small chance of surprising large game 

 three fawns were seen. Beaver dams are common on the 

 streams. On Dam Creek, in a distiiace of less than a quarter of 

 a mile were three small newly constructed dams, built largely of 

 yellow birch. Mr. J. L. Naylor of Searchmont told me that 

 fisher, otter, mink and all the other furbearing animals of 

 interior Canada are taken along the Algoma Central. 



The following list of trees and bushes growing in the vicinity 

 of Searchmont has been prepared for me by Mr. Naylor: Pine, 

 white, Jack and Norway, the last very scarce; spruce; balsam; 

 tamarack ; white cedar ; hard maple ; white birch ; yellow (or red 

 or black) birch; ironwood; popple or balm of gilead; red oak, 

 very scarce; hemlock, very scarce; soft elm; cherry, very scarce; 

 black ash; mountain ash; tag alder; elder (red berried); red 

 currant; black currant; hazel; wild rose; two species of willow; 

 choke cherries; ground hemlock; gooseberry; dogwood; rasp- 

 berries; blackberries; blue berries. 



Plants Determined by C. C. Deam of Bluffton, Indiana. 



Species preceded by a star (*) were taken at Searchmont, 

 from August 6th to iOth. The other species were taken at 

 Hay den, from July 31st to August 4th: 



Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn. Potamogeton nuttallii Cham. & 



Lycopodium luciduluni Michx. Sch. 



L. obscurum L. SporoV)olus asperifolius (N. & M.) 



vSparganiuni androcladum Hurb. 



(I-2ngelm.) Morong. Panicularia canadensis (Michx.) 



*S. simplex Huds. Kuntze. 



*From my description of size, colors and habits, Mr. W. E. C. Todd 

 has so determined them. 



