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ave'd themselves from a like fate by rising 

 almost straight up at the last moment, when 

 within a few feet of the windows. At the 

 first station I got out to see, if possible, 

 what caused them to be so heedless, and 

 found that on the south side of the train 

 each window made an almost perfect mirror, 

 and it is quite probable that when the train 

 was in motion the swiftly moving windows 

 reflected an almost unbroken landscape, so 

 bewildering the Doves that they flew at a 

 window which, fortunately for the passen- 

 ger on the other side, was moving so rapid- 

 ly that the bird always brought up against 

 the woodwork a foot or so behind. 



Birds that flew upon the northern side of 

 the track were not at all affected by any 

 reflection, and flew off unharmed. 



A. W. Anthony. 



Birds ObserDed at Quiniault Lake. 



[by R. H. LAWRENCE.] 



QUINIAULT LAKE lies between two 

 of the south-western spurs of the 

 Olympic Mountains, Washington. 

 Until 1889 its name was almost a fable, so 

 difficult was canoeing to the lake from the 

 ocean, and so almo.st impassable were the 

 forests for miles about. In the spring of 

 1890 a Chehalis county road-survey blazed 

 a trail northward from Steven's Prairie 

 through to the lake, a distance of about 18 

 miles. This prairie is midway between 

 Gray's Harbor and the lake. During that 

 year quite a number of land-hunters used 

 this rude trail, and a good many claims 

 were located on the eastern side of the 

 lake and along the fertile bottom of the 

 upper river. The whole lower river and 

 most of the lake .shore is within the bounds 

 of the Quiniault Indian Reservation. La- 

 ter in 1890 (August) Lieut. O 'Neil's expe- 

 dition with pack-mules reached the lake 

 from Hood's Canal via Lake Cushman, af- 

 ter many weeks of hard work cutting out 

 a trail through the timber. The expedi- 

 tion then cut out a pack-trail to Steven's 



Prairie, and about the last of August ren- 

 dezvoused at Gray's Harbor. Its stock 

 was the first to penetrate the Quiniper Pen- 

 insula. In April, 1S91, the first farm-stock 

 was driven in: viz., two cows brought up 

 from Gray's harbor. In October, 1890, the 

 first white woman-settler came in, though it 

 is understood one or two venturesome white 

 women had been brought up to the lake by 

 canoe from the agency some year or two 

 before. 



It was given out that an Ornithologist 

 would accompany the O'Neil expedition, 

 but no report seems to have been issued by 

 one. 



In Zo£(vo\. Ill, p. 143,) Mr. Hubbard, jr., 

 speaks of seeing Clarke's Nutcracker be- 

 tween Hoquiane (on Gray's Harbor) and 

 Quiniault Lake. It is a bird I never saw 

 in western Washington. It must be rare 

 on the Peninsula. I think it has been 

 taken near Tacoraa. 



In a book enlitled " The Northwest 

 Coast, " written by James G. Swan and 

 published in 1857, is some mention of the 

 birds of the coast, near about page 271. 

 Mr. Swan speaks of dining on young Loons 

 and Pelicans at Point Grenville — a rocky 

 promontory a few miles below the mouth of 

 the Quiniault River, where some rocky 

 pinnacles were found thronged with sea- 

 fowl. The date was July, 1854, about the 

 17th of the month. 



So much had been told us of the charm- 

 ing scenery of Quiniault Lake that an 

 acquaintance and I set forth to see the 

 place, June 11, 1891, from his cabin in the 

 wood, a few miles north of Steven's Prai- 

 rie. Kach carried a blanket and about 

 three days' rations, snugly rolled, and 

 packed in an unhandsome but comfortable 

 gunny-sack. I took my single shot-gun 

 and field-glasses, and an outfit for skinning 

 birds, and each had his compass. The 

 weather was still unsettled and the air 

 heavy. The bushes and ferns were, as 

 usual, dripping, and but for long rubber-leg- 

 gings and a mackinaw would have soon 



