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until it froze over, and then followed 

 the tame Mallards down to Leverett 

 Pond, where it remained until the spring. 

 To my knowledge, this is the first Bald- 

 pate ever seen on these ponds. Last fall, 

 three males and one female Baldpate, a 

 male Canvasback, a male Ring-neck 

 Duck, and a female Redhead, appeared 



sides the hot water returning from the 

 exhausts of some of the engines, there is 

 also a constant stream of heated water 

 running into the lake from the water- 

 jackets of the mine compressors. This 

 has a decided influence on the general 

 temperature of the lake water and, as 

 a consequence, the ice leaves the lake 



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on Jamaica, and afterward spent the win- 

 ter on Leverett Pond. 



Associating as they did with the lame 

 Ducks, they soon became very tame 

 themselves, and would come in and take 

 food thrown to them. Thus I was able 

 to get a number of pictures of them. — 

 W. Ch.\rlesworth Levey, Brooklinc, 

 Mass. 



Early Appearance of Gulls on Cobalt 

 Lake, Ontario, Canada 



Cobalt Lake is a small body of water 

 one mile long and a quarter-mile wide, 

 on which is located the town of Cobalt, 

 on the T.& N. O., or Ontario Government 

 Railway. A number of silver mines of the 

 district adjacent to the lake use the water 

 of the lake for their steam-plants. Be- 



earlier than formerly, and sometimes as 

 much as two weeks earlier than any of the 

 surrounding lakes. This year the lake 

 opened on March 31, and within twenty- 

 four hours two Herring Gulls were seen 

 floating in the lake, or hovering gracefully 

 above its surface in search of food. It is 

 remarkable how soon these birds were 

 able to find the open water, when one 

 remembers that all the other lakes for 

 hundreds of miles around were still 

 covered with solid ice. — Arthur A. Cole. 



Great-Crests Nesting in a Box 



.\ cherry-tree, twenty-five feet from 

 our kitchen window, has three boxes in it. 

 One has an opening only just large enough 

 to admit a Wren; the other two will 



