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The, immediate mainland still has remnants of the once dense 

 and heavy forests, alternating- with pastures, meadows and 

 plowed fields running to the borders of the marsh. Streams 

 flowing in from the mainland and ridges extending out from 

 the sand spit landward result in numerous coves, some of 

 which are three-quarters surrounded by trees or bushes. 

 Practically the whole extent of the marsh border of the sand 

 spit, down to the water's edge, there is a growth of bushes, 

 mostly willow and button bushes, ranging from a few inches 

 to ten feet high. During the hight of migration these bushes 

 are full of warblers, sparrows, and vireos. Along the nar- 

 rower reaches of the sand spit, toward its eastern end, cotton- 

 wood and willow trees immediately- border the marsh fringe 

 of low bushes, only in the wider places being more than 

 straggling individual trees, none of any considerable size. 

 Within the limits of this study many large, cottonwood and 

 willow trees which stood on the crest of the ridge have been 

 overturned and washed away at times of high water and the 

 crest of the ridge moved marshward. More of this destruc- 

 tive work has been done near Rye Beach, at the eastern end 

 of the sand spit, than elsewhere. It is clear that here,, at least, 

 the lake is pushing the bar back into the marsh at the rate of 

 many feet a year. Along this narrower part of the sand spit 

 wild grape vines abound, and in the fall the abundant supply 

 of ripe grapes calls many birds to the feast. Robins have 

 been found there later than elsewhere in the region under 

 consideration. 



As the sand spit widens northwestward large trees, mostly 

 cottonwood, become more numerous just marshward from 

 the crest, with a few clumps of wilows each side of them, 

 then a variable width of grass covered sand, in places reach- 

 ing a width of more than ten rods, and finally the marsh 

 border of bushes with their fringing smaller trees. Where 

 points of the sand spit reach out into the marsh the bush and 

 tree growth form considerable thickets in which the smaller 

 birds, including the thrushes, woodpeckers, jays and crows, 

 and even the Woodcock and Whippoorwill, find congenial sur- 



