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but wreckage. For two years I had dreamed 

 of finding the nest and eggs of this species north 

 of Prince Albert, and this result when my dream 

 seemed true ! 



Like everyone else naturalists have their suc- 

 cesses and failures. This was my dark day. 



Before leaving the lake we spent an hour 

 among the colony of Black Terns that were just 

 commencing to nest, and obtained some photo- 

 graphs of the few nests that contained their 

 complement of eggs. 



