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the cliff I found a second nest of this bird, built at the top of a 

 stunted spruce, which contained four young birds just able to fly. 

 Later, I came across four white-winged cross-bills, two of them 

 in red plumage, which flew down to a pool of water to drink ; 

 the other two seemed to be young birds in the green plumage ; 

 also a warbler with a black chin and a black streak through the 

 eye ; and a golden-crowned thrush. The warbler, I have no 

 doubt, was the golden-winged. 



June 20th. — This afternoon we drove along the beach for 

 upwards of twenty miles to Grosse Isle. Besides a sparrow and 

 some piping-plovers and spotted sand-pipers, I saw scarcely any 

 birds, but heard the fox-sparrow repeatedly everywhere. 



June 2 1 St. — This was a very wet, blustering day, and it was 

 impossible to get about. In a fisherman's house I saw eggs of 

 the black guillemot, horned-grebe, scaup-duck, red-breasted 

 merganser, kingfisher, least sandpiper, piping-plover, spotted 

 sandpiper and swamp-sparrow, but spent most of the day in the 

 house at Grosse Isle. 



June 22vd. — The weather having cleared up, started to 

 drive along the shore to the east point of Grosse Isle. The 

 scenery is most interesting and unique. Sand hills line 

 the coast about half to a mile across. Within and bounded 

 by these is what is called the " lagoon," extending some 

 thirty miles south to Grindstone Island, the shores con- 

 sisting of sand and marshy flats and enclosed by sand hills, with 

 the exception of a narrow channel at Grand Entry and House 

 Harbour. This is a splendid place for ducks and waders. In 

 the fall of the year they are reported to gather in thousands, 

 along with the geese and plover, to feed in the salt marshes. In 

 the month of June I saw a good many ducks, such as the scaup, 

 and red-breasted merganser, with some others I did not identify. 

 A few years ago " yellow-legs " are said to have been common ; 

 I did not see one here, but was fortunate in finding a nest of the 



