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boarding house at 4:45, well satisfied 

 with our day's collecting. 



Next few days we stroll around the 

 town as we are getting tired of collect- 

 ing in the same place. So on Satur- 

 day, June 5, we go down the river for 

 32 miles and put up at the Stanley Is- 

 land Hotel Sunday, June 6. 



We get up at 4 a. m. and get our 

 breakfast and the cook, who was so 

 kind, made us up a big lunch for the 

 whole day. We had a nice boat and 

 the water was like a sheet of glass and 

 not dangerous. We rowed up the 

 river, that is south, until we struck a 

 big bed of reeds. The river is full of 

 these beds. The first one we landed 

 on was j of a mile from shore. These 

 beds as soon as you walk on them 

 they shake so much that you would 

 think they were floating and you sink 

 up to the knees. In fact at one place 

 I went over the top of my hip boots 

 in soft mud. There we found Florida 

 Gallinule 1-5 on the reeds; nest was 

 floating ou the water attached to the 

 long reeds. Then we went further 

 south and struck another bed J of a 

 mile from shore and found another set 

 of Florida Gallinule 2-7; nest in same 

 position as the other, composition the 

 same. Then we went on further and 

 in crossing from one bed to another 

 we struck a colony of IMack Terns. 

 We found their eggs deposited in the 

 mud and on the reeds and we found 2 

 sets of 2 deposited on a board floating 

 in the marsh; eggs were at the end of 

 the board stuck in the mud along with 

 a few small reeds. We were a little 

 too early for these Terns; we only 

 found 5 sets in all and they were sets 

 of 2 and 3. There were over three 

 hundred of these Terns. For the past 

 10 years these Terns have been known 

 to breed in the same place. We went 

 further on and found another set of 

 3-12 Florida Gallinules; nest and com- 

 position the same as the other two. 

 Further on I found Sora Rail 1-13 in 

 deep water in a clump of grass com- 

 posed of dry grass and reeds; eggs in- 

 cubated. Then we found 5 sets of 6 



Long-billed Marsh Wren. ' ' Nest fast- 

 ened to tall reeds composed of reeds 

 and lined with feathers of the bird; 

 eggs were all fresh Then we return- 

 ed to the hotel an^ blew our eggs and 

 retired for the uight at 8:45 p. m., 

 well satisfied witli 'Ur day's collecting. 

 Next moaning .it up at 8:45 a. m. 

 and strolled aroncd Stanley Island, 

 got 3 sets of 5 Btilimore Oriole, some 

 Robins and a set of Bronzed Grackle. 

 There is a veranda at the side of a 

 large wood house near the water and 

 on the eaves of this veranda we found 



6 sets of robins 5 feet from each other 



7 feet from the ground. 



Then we came back and packed up 

 and rowed across the river. It was • 

 raining very hard and we got a car- 

 riage and drove 8 miles to the station, 

 boarded the 4:36 express and reached 

 home at 6:15, well satisfied with our 

 week's collecting in Ontario. 



C. N. Sonne, 

 Montreal, Que. 



Indiana Notes. 



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SHELLS OF F.-^YETTE COUNTY. 



(Continued from May number.) 



Pissii/imu abditiinn. Lam. Only 

 reported. 



Goiiiobasis seviiearinati. Say. 

 Common in a great many streams. I 

 have seen large bowlders in the river 

 that were entirely covered with them. 

 Extraordinary large specimens are 

 abundant in Big Williams creek. 



Goniobasis grosvenori. Only re- 

 ported. 



Vnio oecidens. Lea. Abundant in 

 canal, also found in river. A few 

 words right here in regard to my ex- 

 perience may be beneficial to some 

 young collector. My first attempt at 

 collectfng Unios was a failure. I had 

 collected about 50 fine [\ oeeidens, 

 etc., and had succeeded in cleaning 

 them nicely after which I put them 

 all out where the sun struck them full 

 force and left them for a time — just 



