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drove close to a Prairie Wolf, which calmly looked at me for a 
while and then galloped off. 
October 8th.—There has not been much shooting during the 
early part of October. I generally have a drive along the river, 
which swarms with Ducks. I have secured an American Wigeon, 
and fired at an Eagle on the 4th, but lost it among some timber. 
November 4th.—Ducks are beginning to leave us now, and 
are going south, but there is still pretty good shooting. I gota 
Short-eared Owl one morning on going out before breakfast; 
there was evidently a migration of these birds going on, for they 
rose at every few yards from out of the long grass, just as they 
do on the sand-hills at Redcar. The country is now covered 
with snow, but the days are very delightful, and more enjoyable 
than during the heat of summer with mosquito plagues. I hear 
Moose are to be had down at the Souris, so am going there soon. 
Snow Buntings mingle with the Shore Larks in the streets, and 
are as tame as our English Sparrows. 
November 16th.— The weather is still very cold, and the 
thermometer registers 20° below zero. I saw a very fine Ermine 
to-day. Foxes and Wolves are increasing in numbers and 
boldness. We get an animal like a Mountain Hare here, which 
turns white in winter (Lepus americanus]. 
December 25th.—About the end of this month there was a 
fearful snow-storm, and the snow now lies thick on the ground; 
the cold is still intense, 20° below zero. My bag of eatable birds 
this season has been about 800, and includes 129 Ducks, 
119 Prairie Chickens, and 14 Bitterns. 
January 24, 1883.—It is heavy work shooting in the snow, 
but I managed about the middle of the month to bag a brace of 
Ruffed Grouse; they sit in the bushes, and you may almost 
knock them over with a stick. Ialso secured a Tanager [Pyranga 
rubra], very like the American Grosbeak ; the bill is black, head, 
breast, and back crimson: wings black and white, and tail black, 
size about equal to a Hawfinch. ‘There was a pair of them, and 
I secured the male. On the same day I got a large Shrike and 
some very good Snow Buntings. 
February 22nd.— About the beginning of the month I shot 
another Tanager, and a third towards the middle of the month. 
About the 10th I was going out with the gun, when I saw a large 
bird coming straight over me, about sixty yards high. I gave it 
