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White reappear again in large numbers, so that they evidently cross the 
Bay on their annual migrations. 
“There are lots of geese both on the East and West sides of the Bay, 
but I believe that more pass on the East (Fort George side) than the 
other as the Coast is rocky with lots of islands where they can breed. 
We have some Islands out in the Bay called the ‘‘ Tioms ”’ which are great 
breeding places and every summer the Indians make quite a haul of young 
and moulting geese there. 
“The Indians who killed those tagged geese said that they seemed to 
be tamer than the others and came out of large flocks and down to the 
decoys when the rest of the band would not turn. 
“‘ About three miles north of Fort George Post there is a big Bay (salt 
water) with lots of mud and grass at low tide and in the spring almost 
every flock of wavies and some geese feed in this Bay on their way North; 
the Indians never hunt them on their arrival in this Bay but gather on a 
long hill on the other side and then shoot at the birds as they are going off; 
they generally get up in small flocks and as they have to rise consider- 
ably to clear the hill, they can be seen getting up sometime before they 
get to the hill, and then everyone runs along a path and tries to get right 
under where the flock is going to pass; of course if three or four flocks get 
up at the same time, there is shooting on different parts of the hill and the 
hunters are apt to spoil one another. The Indians say that once these 
birds leave this Bay that they do not feed again till they get far North 
(Hudson Straits or Baffin Land) in fact a Wavies’ nest is a great rarity. 
Strange to say they do not feed in this Bay in the fall. 
“We have no wild rice in the Bay and the birds seem to feed mostly on 
grass in the salt water and in the fall they go out to the Islands to feed 
on berries; . they fly out to the Islands in the mornings and back into the 
small Bays for the nights.’”? — W. E. SaunpEers, London, Ont. 
Wood Duck Removing Young from the Nest.— How does the old 
Wood Duck get her little ones into the water from the nest in a hollow tree 
or stub, forty or fifty feet from the ground and which is, may be, two or 
three hundred feet from the water? Mr. Burroughs says, ‘ That the 
feat of getting down from the tree top cradle had been safely affected 
probably by the young clambering up on the inside walls of the cavity 
and tumbling out into the air and then coming down gently like huge 
snowflakes. The notion that the mother duck takes the young one by 
one in her beak and carries them to the creek is doubtless erroneous. 
But this is precisely how she gets them into the water. 
Early in July, 1898, while tented on the bank of the Michigamme River, 
Township 43 — North Range 32 west section one, Iron County, Mich., 
I had the good fortune to see it done. The nest was in a hollow pine that 
stood directly back of the tent and about two hundred feet from the water, 
and the hole where the old duck went in, was fifty or sixty feet from the 
ground. After seeing the old duck fly by the tent, to and from her feeding 
