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2. Beaver Meadow (Station VII. 2 and 3). 



This meadow was along Little Carp river, about a quarter of a mile east 

 of Little Carp Lake. It was about a mile long and a quarter of a mile wide, 

 the Little Carp river running through the middle of it. The ground was 

 quite marshy in many places and was covered with grass, there being no 

 trees in the meadow. There were several willow and alder bushes at the 

 east end. The surrounding trees were alder, tamarack, arbor vitae, balsam 

 and birch. 



Observations were made on August 3, and the birds seen here were: 

 Kingfisher, Solitary Sandpiper, Cedar Wax wing, Red-eyed Vireo, Swamp 

 Snarrmv- Son? Snarrow. White-throated Snarrow. Marsh Hawk. Pine Siskin. 



throated Green Warbler, Chickadee, Purple Finch, Black-throated Blue 

 Warbler, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Cedar Waxwing, Oven Bird and Wilson's 

 Thrush. 



In the case of birds with a restricted range, the limiting area was occasion-, 

 ally very sharply denned, while in other cases it was difficult to recognize 

 these limits. Examples of the former are the water and shore birds, 

 of the latter, the Golden-crowned Kinglet and Pine Siskin. The distribution 

 of the water and shore birds was the most sharply denned, and, as they 

 are the simplest to place, I will begin my summary with them. In con- 

 nection with these I will also mention other birds found in association with 

 the shores of the lakes and rivers. 



1. Water Birds. Of the water birds only a few species were observed. 

 The Herring Gull, Loon and American Merganser were found on Lake 



