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li tli.- Lank- ' tli.- North > uan. < Mi wah. 



through -..me long grass around tin- lake we Hushed a gadwall 



duck otf its nest it lle\\ int< tli.- \\.it.-r amongst tl t 



lurks, many <>\ which \\ep- swimming al >ut with t heir young 

 Olies. Th- i, i hollow scooped ..lit "T tin- -and 



which was snugly linr<l with down ami <- >ntain.-d nine eggs, 

 which arc pair luitt'aiul wry similar to thosi- .it' the Kui"[ 

 widgeon. The eggs W.-P- partly incul.ated and a\.-rage in 



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'lM-k. \\ - ^at -lown ami had our lunch of 

 0|>e MUdwiehea, l-ut w.- w.-r.- n thirsty w.- had soiucdirti- 

 culty in disposing <t' th.-in. and had t) go down to the lakr 

 and tak.- a roiiplr of handt'ills ot' alkalim- uat.-i t" \' 

 the saiidwiclirs down. At't.-r n-sting awhile and watching tin- 

 \arious in. >\ , -in. -nt^ <t' tin- ducks, grrsr and oth.-r \\at.-rfo\vl 

 .n tin- lake, we g.t up and followed tin- lake round it> north- 

 ern shore, disturhiiig numerous marMed god \vits, avoeets, kil- 

 de. i-s. phalarop.-s. and se\cral species of small sjindpiper^ w.- 

 could not identify: we had not l.nmght a gun with us, or .-U,- 

 we might i --ral rar.- -p.-cies of sandpiper-, 



-peijt two hours in raml.ling round the shore- of the lake, 

 and, finding n mop -truck out across the prairie in 



the din-cti >\' home. \Ve met a prairie wolf coming to- 

 ds the lake ; he did not turn hack, hut kept a few bandied 

 Is to the north of us. he kept stopping and looking at u- 

 and then ran along a little farther and. -topped agJiin, and 

 I u- once more ; we hallooed at him. and he ran off t.ward- 

 thr lake : prohahly he was after a duck for his evening meal 

 While tramping khfl prairie \\-e startled up a small 



l.ird from the ^ra. and were pleased to find a m--t of that 

 hird. S; pipil I'll.- n. --t was like that of a -hor.- 



lark or |(.ng-jnir. and made of dry grass. It was sunk Kelow 

 the surface of tin- surrounding soil, under shelter of a ttis-ock 

 of gniss, and contained five eggs. They are greyish white, 

 freckled all uith purplish gWy, a\eraging m 



tlier clut<-h of ti\ in my collection 



taken !. .-nt I.:ik. If ay 81 8l I VM Th.-y are ^n -yish- 



