16 BIRDS OF THE WATER 



pebble, aeons ago, has been frost fractured 

 on the heights of old world hills and 

 rounded in old world streams. Now again 

 they are crumbling into modern river gorges 

 to be carried down to modern seas and 

 ground to grains of sand. ''The thing that 

 "hath been, it is that which shall be; and that 

 ''which is done is that which shall be done: 

 "and there is no new thing under the sun." 



This account of the lake may not perhaps 

 be thought too lengthy when its bird life 

 is considered, for besides three species of 

 rail, the White Heron, two kinds of Shag, 

 Bittern, Grebe, and many species of ocean 

 straggler, ever}^ mainland Duck except the 

 Wood Duck has been, during the last 

 twenty-seven years, identified on its surface, 

 the Grey Duck, the Mountain Duck, the 

 Scaup, the Bro^vn Teal, the White-eyed 

 Duck, the Paradise Duck, and the Shoveller. 



