Vol. XXXIIIl 



1916 



] MousLEY, Birds of Hatley, Que. 57 



FIVE YEARS PERSONAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS 



ON THE BIRDS OF HATLEY, STANSTEAD COUNTY, 



QUEBEC — 1911-1915. 



BY H. MOUSLEY. 



As far as I have been able to gather very httle if anything has 

 been pubhshed on the birds of this particidar part of the country, 

 and it may be well therefore to give some indication as to the exact 

 location of Hatley and the County of Stanstead, of which the 

 former forms one of the northern divisions. Looking at the map 

 the county of Stanstead will be found stowed away as it were 

 almost in the extreme southeast corner of the Province of Quebec; 

 the southern border adjoining the State of Vermont, whilst the 

 nearest point on the eastern side is within ten miles of the borders 

 of New Hampshire, and thirty of Maine. The entire county 

 comprises an area of about 410 square miles or 263,000 acres. 

 Few parts of the country present a greater variety of surface than 

 Stanstead County. The land on the eastern shore of Lake Mem- 

 phremagog (a large sheet of water some 33 miles in length and from 

 one to three miles in width) and extending through Hatley on the 

 west side of Lake Massawippi is hilly and broken, the most promi- 

 nent elevations being the Bunker and Massawippi hills, the latter 

 rising to about 1400 feet above the sea level. The courses of the 

 four principal rivers, the Barlow, Negro, Coaticook and Massa- 

 wippi (none of which are of any great size or importance) are 

 marked by uneven banks and hilly ground which generally extends 

 for about a mile on each side. The three first have their source in 

 the State of Vermont from which they flow in a northerly direction, 

 the Barlow and Negro on the left hand side of the county and the 

 Coaticook on the right side, the two former emptying themselves 

 into Lake Massawippi at its soutliern extremity and being conveyed 

 away at the northern end by the Massawippi river; which after 

 flowing in a northeasterly direction for about eight miles joins the St. 

 Francis near Lennoxville the same as the Coaticook river does on 

 the east side, and thus the waters of these four rivers eventually 

 find their wav into the St. LawTence bv means of the St. Francis, 



