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JOURNAL OF VARIATION. 



No. 5. Vol. VI. 



March 15th, 1895. 



Gollecting JNfoctuidae: by La^e Erie. 



Bj' A. KADCLIFf E GKOTE, A.M. 



Vicni, pensado a me segretemente. 



strong growth 

 of lieniIock,oak 

 birch and chest- 

 nut trees, 

 while willow, 

 alder and 

 American pop- 

 lar ( Lin'oden- 

 d r n) g r e w 

 along the brook 

 which flowed 

 between them. 

 The large trees 

 on the outer 

 ridge sheltered 

 my camp from 

 the winds off 

 the lake, which 

 sometimes, in 



Upon the 

 inner of the 

 two over-lap- 

 ping, high and 

 wooded, sandy 

 ridges which 

 run p a r a 1 1 e 1 

 with the south 

 shore of Lake 

 Erie, I set uj) 

 my canvas teiit 

 at tlie end of 

 April, before 

 the new green 

 had fully cloth- 

 ed the trees. 

 These broad 

 ridges were 

 covered with a 



the earlier part of the year, blew hard, threatening the canvas walls and 

 reminding me that I held my place merely on sufferance. The bx'ook or 

 creek itself found its outlet to tlie lake just beyond and beneath the 

 camp, where the outer and less elevated ridge sloped away to let it 

 escape. The hemlock trees on the ridge are all so blown upon by the 

 winds, that their branches grow towards the land. They look as if 

 they wei'e stretching their arms towards safety from some great danger. 

 The waters of Lake Erie are comparatively shallow and, like all shal- 

 low watei's, are easily moved. There the waves })romptly answer the 

 wind and fly before it, like a pack of hungry wolves, falling on 

 the beach with a (piick sharp bark. From the noise in stormy 

 weather on the beach, one turns gladly away across the outer ridge, 

 the sand under one's feet made slippery l)y the needles, and strewn 

 with the wind-torn tassels of the pine. Once across the ridges, 

 the force of the wind is Ijroken ; behind them nestles a farm-house, 



