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Cheyboygan county-line from the Station and only twenty to 

 the Little Traverse Bay at Bay View. 



Of the 25 listed as belonging- to the " beach " or to " the 

 beach and open water " only 14 will probably be called water 

 birds. Of these the spotted sandpiper has an abundancs of 

 (6) and the red-breasted merganser (17), while the others 

 rank rather low, from (28) to the lowest of all (47). Pos- 

 sibly Douglas Lake is too small to compete successfully with 

 the larger lakes, Burt, Mullet, Huron and Michigan, none 

 of which is more than 20 miles away, for the favor of the 

 gulls and terns, and possessed of too little swamp to com- 

 pete with Indian and Crooked Rivers for the favor of the 

 coots and bitterns. Two trips were made to these rivers and 

 on each of them large numbers of swamp birds were seen, 

 but they are too far from the Station to be visited regularly ; 

 for this reason the records are unavailable for our purpose. 



A HERMIT THRUSH STUDY. 



BY CORDELIA J. STANWOOD. 



A hill wooded with gray birches and evergreens slopes 

 down to a peat bog. Just above the swale grows the painted 

 trillium that carries at its snowy heart the symbol of the 

 Trinity in royal purple. One morning as I plucked a hand- 

 ful of these dainty blooms, I flushed a brooding Herm'.t from 

 her eggs. A small fir shaded the nest. The three green- 

 blue eggs made a charming bit of color against the dull 

 orange lining of pine needles. 



Twelve days later I visited the nest again. The woods 

 were now sweet with linnea and three fascinating little 

 Thrushes, about seven days old, welcomed me with a wide 

 expanse of golden throat. The young birds had beautiful, 

 large eyes ; the natal down was conspicuous at the close of 

 the quill stage; and the tips of the olive and buffy feathers 

 were just beginning to show beyond the quill casings. 



I was anxious to try an experiment with tame Thrushes, 



