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ORNITHOLOGISTS’ -+ AND -+ OOLOGISTS 
SEMI-ANNUAL. 
WO) baie MIEN Fis So. N@E 2: 
A PRIF; YO- THOMPSON'S; LAKE. 
BY DR. W.S. STRODE, BERNADOTTE, ILL. 
OR many years it has been my custom to make 
hunting trips to Thompson’s Lake, on the 
Illinois River. These excursions were usually 
made during the fall or spring, for the pur- 
pose of duck shooting. 
In the spring of ’87, I had concluded to 
change the programme and postpone my visit 
to this region till about the roth of June, then 
to make a collecting instead of a shooting 
expedition. 
At four o’clock, on the morning of the above date, accompanied 
by two companions (Green and Herriford) a start was made for this 
lake—distant sixteen miles as the crow flies. These individuals were 
not collectors ; but volunteered to accompany me, just to “have a good 
time and see the fun,” as they styled it. att 
The morning was beautiful, and in two hours from the time of l¢av- 
ing the village of Bernadotte, my team of quick steppers had carried 
us to the little city of Lewiston, within four miles of our destinatjonl 
Stopping here a half-hour, we replenished our larder by the addi» 
tion of some minced beef, bologna and canned fruits, and filling a keg 
with water, we again merrily resumed our journey, arriving at ‘Prick! 
ett’s Fishing, on the west side of the lake at 9 a. m. Say 
Thompson’s Lake is a beautiful sheet of .water, lying about 4  halfi 
