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Swan LAKE. 
1 Several trips were made to Swan Lake. This is a shallow alkaline lake, about four miles 
_ long and half a mile wide, lying immediately north of the North Arm of Okanagan Lake. The 
shores are muddy and grown up with tules, rushes, and sedges. The rich bottom land is under 
cultivation as close to the water as possible, but sufficient cover to make the shores an attractive 
 breeding-ground for birds is afforded by dense patches of second growth, chiefly aspen (Populus 
4 tremuloides), mountain-bireh (Betula fontinalis), willow (Salix sp.), and alder (Alnus sp.). 
. The following species of birds were breeding :— 
’ Holbeell’s Grebe (Colymbus holballi). 
Horned Grebe (Colymbus auritus). 
Loon (Gavia immer). 
Black Tern (I/ydrochelidon nigra surinamensis ). 
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos). 
Redhead (Marila americana). 
Ruddy Duck (FLrismatura jamaicensis). 
Bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus). 
Coot (Fulica americana). 
Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularia). 
Killdeer (Oryechus vociferus). 
Marsh Hawk (Circus hudsonius). 
Osprey (Pundion haliaetus carolinensis). 
Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus). 
Western Belted Kingfisher (Ceryle alcyon caurina). 
Red-naped Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius nuchalis). 
Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus). 
Western Wood Pewee (Myiochanes richardsoni richardsoni). 
Alder Flycatcher (2mpidonar trailli alnorun). 
Magpie (Pica pica hudsonia). 
Western Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos hesperis). 
Yellow-headed Blackbird (Xanthocephalus canthocephalus). 
Northwestern Redwing (Agelaius phaeniceus caurinus), 
Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta). 
Bullock’s Oriole (Jeterus bullocki). 
Brewer's Blackbird (Buphaga cyanocephalus). 
Pale Goldfinch (Astragalinus tristis pallidus). 
Western Vesper Sparrow (Pomcetes gremineus confinis). 
Western Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina arizone). 
Sooty Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia rujina). 
Spurred Towhee (Pipilo maculatus montanus). 
Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amend). 
Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum). 
Red-eyed Vireo (Vireosylva olivacea). 
California Yellow Warbler (Dendroica estiva brewsteri). 
Pacifie Yellow-throat (Geothlypis trichas arizela). 
Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis). 
Western Marsh Wren (J'elmatodytes palustris plesius). 
Chickadee (Penthestes atricapillus atricapillus). 
Willow thrush (Hylocichla fuscescens salicicola). 
Western Robin (Planesticus migratorius propinquus). 
Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides). 
Suvuswar District. 
- The Shuswap District was visited in the early part of June and again in the latter part 
of October. Board was obtained at a ranch near Shuswap Falls. This proved much more 
_ Satisfactory than establishing a camp, as more time could be given to the collecting and 
preparing of specimens. 

