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was seen on the South Kawishiwi river opposite Clear Lake; July 16, a 

 female with her brood was seen at the west shore of Lake Bald Eagle. 



Anas platyrhynchos Linn. Mallard. This species occurred in 

 small numbers in all parts of the region visited. Females with broods 

 were seen in July, 1914, along the southwest shore of Lake Bald Eagle, 

 on a small stream entering this lake from the west, and on the South 

 Kawishiwi river near the Clear Lake portage. 1915: July 25, a female 

 with five young was seen at the Rice Lake outlet. 



Anas rubripes tristis Brewst. Black Duck. 1912: August 28, a 

 flock of 13 Black Ducks was observed along the east shore of Lake Isa- 

 belle. August 7, 1915, a single specimen was seen on the upper sources 

 of the Perent river. 



Aix sponsa (Linn.). Wood Duck. A single specimen of this species 

 was seen in July, 1915, along the Isabelle river about midway between 

 Rice Lake and Lake Bald Eagle. 



Botaurus lentiginosis (Montag.). Bittern. The only Bitterns 

 seen at any time were observed at the mouth of the Isabelle river. One 

 was seen in that locality during the first week of August, 1913, another was 

 seen July 31, 1914, and two days later, August 2, two Bitterns were seen 

 at the same place. 



Ardea herodias herodias Linn. Great Blue Heron. This heron 

 was common along the watercourses in all parts of the region visited. 

 In 1912, a heronry of about a dozen nests was found on July 5, about 

 three hundred yards south of the North Kawishiwi at the upper end of 

 the large lake-like expansion occurring some distance above Farm Lake. 

 This heronry was visited again, early in July, in 1914 and in 1915. My 

 notes under date of July 22, 1914, state that "there is quite certainly 

 another heronry located some distance north of the Kawishiwi at a point 

 about a mile east of the long rapids; heard squawking and croaking in 

 this direction, July 30." 



Porzana Carolina (Linn.). Sora.. My only records for the Sora 

 are for August 16, 1914, when one was seen along the Isabelle river just 

 below Rice Lake, and another at a beaver dam on a small stream 

 entering the Isabelle about a mile and a half below the lake mentioned. 



Gallinago delicata (Ord.). Wilson's Snipe. August 12, 1912, a 

 single individual of this species was seen along the Isabelle river at the 

 second portage above Lake Bald Eagle. 



Pisobia minutilla (Vieill.). Least Sandpiper. August 11, 1914, 

 two of this species were shot from among a flock of six on a mud-flat 

 along the Isabelle about a mile below Rice Lake. 



Totanus melanoleucus (Gmel.). Greater Yellow-legs. A single 

 individual was seen September 2, 1914, on a small island at the east end of 

 Lake Isabelle. 



Totanus flavipes (Gmel.). Yellow-legs. One was shot August 

 8, 1914, on the northeast shore of Lake Isabelle; another was seen in this 

 locality August 8, 1915. 



