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species were also seen at other times, but nowhere else were 

 more than two species seen simultaneously. 



Other birds were also quite plentiful about this camp, among 

 those noted being Hairy and Downy Woodpeckers, Golden- 

 crowned Kinglet, Bluebird, Robin, White-crowned Sparrow, 

 Song Sparrow, and Chipping Sparrow. Many of the warblers 

 listed above were seen at another partly cleared area along the 

 road leading past this old camp. 



On another side trip, by steamer from Raquette Lake station 

 to Blue Mountain Lake, we had our best opportunity to study 

 the Osprey, though several of these were seen at other times. 

 The steamer runs for several miles through Marion River, a 

 very tortuous channel through timber killed by high water, and 

 for much of the distance an Osprey kept just ahead of us, evi- 

 dently hunting the fish that were frightened into shallow water 

 by the advancing boat. Several times the bird's headlong 

 plunges into the water were profitless, but at other times small 

 fish were caught and hastily eaten upon some dead branch. 

 Finally a fish of som-e size was caught and the Osprey flew 

 back over the woods toward Raquette Lake. 



Perhaps the greatest surprise of our trip, in the bird line, was 

 the lighting, only a few feet from our canoe, of a Northern 

 Phalarope. I had never seen these birds before, and to have a 

 "sandpiper," as I thought it when in flight, calmly drop into 

 the water and paddle about in circles almost within paddle reach 

 of us, marked that day with a star in my bird calendar. Later 

 in the same day two more of these peculiar long-legged swim- 

 mers were seen, but not so close at hand. 



Other days similarly honored were those which brought with- 

 in sight the Bald Eagle, the fast vanishing Northern Raven, 

 the American Crossbill, a flock of mergansers just before our 

 tent door, a Least Sandpiper "scuttling" along the rocky shore 

 of an island in Saranac Lake, and a Wood Duck leaving her 

 tree nest to land in the water through which our canoe had just 

 passed. All these were new or rare birds on my list. 



The full list of species seen so as to be positively identified 

 •is as follows : 



Colymbus auritus. Horned Grebe.— Few seen; two on Fourth 

 Lake. 



