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are a good many kettle-holes, some of considerable depth, and with 

 more or less water during wet seasons, while others are less deep 

 and usually dry. These kettle holes usually support a more or 

 less rank growth of vegetation consisting of grasses, sedges, bushes 

 and small trees, forming thickets very attractive to certain mam- 

 mals. The highest land anywhere about the lake is on the east 

 side where it rises 136 feet above the lake surface. There is about 

 the lake a good deal of marsh land; the most considerable areas 

 being that about Norris Inlet at the south end and that on the west 

 side surrounding Lost Lake and extending southward from it along 

 its outlet. Lost Lake is a small lake a few rods west of Lake Maxin- 

 kuckee; it is in fact an expansion of the Maxinkuckee outlet. Be- 

 tween the two lakes and bordering the outlet is Green's marsh which 

 consists of several acres of wet land. Just south of this is Green's 

 woods, an open woodland with little underbrush, where certain 

 animals are apt to be found. On the west side of the railroad and 

 facing it at the southwest corner of the lake is a large gravel pit 

 and with high bank on the west which is a favorite place for the 

 striped gophers. Southwest of this, a short distance, is Walley's 

 woods the largest and most virgin forest near the lake. At the 

 south end of the lake is Farrar's woods, smaller and less dense, 

 but with heavy underbrush. East of the north end of the lake is 

 a considerable acreage of open forest of large trees where raccoons, 

 squirrels and other arboreal species occur. 



In the following list of species we have followed the nomenclature 

 and sequence of Dr Hahn's recent paper on mammals of Indiana. 1 



List of Species. 



1. Didelphis virginiana Kerr. 



Common Opossum. 



According to old settlers the Opossum used to be common as 

 far north as northern Indiana, but disappeared from there many 

 years ago. In recent years they have been returning northward 



x The Mammals of Indiana, 33d Annual Report, Department of Geology and 

 Natural History of Indiana, 1908, pp. 417-663. 



