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Canada Jays were very abundant everywhere. Quite a colony 

 were hanging about the camp, and everywhere in the woods. As one 

 goes trailing after deer, these interesting birds, one or two of them, are 

 pretty sure to drop down near you, look you over, scold you a bit 

 and silently scale along a rod or more in search for food. They are 

 not usually favorites with campers or woodsmen, yet anything for 

 bird life during the long, cold winter is agreeable. Chickadees were 

 flitting about everywhere. One solitary Snowflake {Plcctroplicnax 

 nivalis) (Linn) was seen on Oct. 25th in a large tract of burnt land, 

 along the Spencer Stream. It was perched on a dead twig as we 

 came up to it early in the morning, and allowed us to nearly pick it 

 up before it flew a few feet away. Juncos were common every- 

 where. The Blue Jay was not very plenty, not near as abundant as 

 was Canadensis. 



One afternoon, as one of the party and myself were following the 

 trail campwards (we were very wet and it was raining hard), we 

 very unexpectedly came on to a doe that stood under a thick clump 

 of firs, looking at us. As we caught sight of her, she jumped into 

 the thick woods at a])out two leaps. As she started, l)oth rifles 

 came up and the two shots rang out on the heavy air and the doe 

 kept on her way unharmed. As we looked at each other in amaze- 

 ment (and amusement, too), a Canada Jay dropped into the bushes 

 beside us and scolded vigorously, then broke out into a low laugh, 

 evidently at our surprise at not stopping the doe at so easy a range, 

 or else he was much amused at the poor shots we had proved our- 

 selves to be. 



While at the late date that we were in the Lower Dead River 

 region it was too late for the migrant species, yet the species that 

 we saw were very interesting. Moose were not uncommon there, 

 while deer were very plenty, and with plenty of venison in camp, we 

 spent a very pleasant ten days in that region. With keen appetites 

 we came into camp for a hearty supper, and retired early and slept 

 sound, breathing deep drafts of the air, heavy laden with the spruce 

 and fir, amid the. sound of the rush of the water through the sluice- 

 ways in the dam, the roar of the water over Grand Falls, a few rods 



