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day, which is about our usual day the principal 

 exertions, our ever-onward search and travel ; 

 and skinning specimens and preparing food when 

 we ran ashore at our night camping place. 



GREEN LEAF SHOWERS FORTH ON WINTER-BARE 

 TREES 



To-day has been very fine and the sunshine 

 brilliant, and on the river-bank the leaf-buds of 

 the poplars and willows are bursting, and the 

 trees in a few hours have become beautiful with 

 liberal show of minute ornament of purest emerald 

 green. 



SCARCITY OF WILD DUCK 



There is on this river, so far as we have gone, 

 a marked scarcity of wild duck. They are here 

 much less plentiful than on Crooked River. We 

 are now on the main Hudson Bay Company's 

 route from Green Lake to lie a la Crosse post, 

 and it may be that they are less common here 

 because this river is more often disturbed by 

 passing voyageurs. 



BEAVER RIVER, 



May 19. 



WARBLERS ARRIVING 



Many warblers are to-day in evidence for the 

 first time. 'With the advance of spring they are 

 feeling their way north. Groups of them were ob- 

 served among the willows, restless and plaintively 

 calling as if still in course of migration. 



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