The OoLOGiST. 



VOL. XIX. NO. 8. ALBION. N. Y., AUGUST, 1903. 



Whole No. 191 



The Oologist. 



A Monthly Publication Devoted to 



OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND 



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A Day in the Marsh. 



Any one who has not had the oppor- 

 tunity of starcbiDg in a marsh can not 

 imagine how slowly progress is in the 

 un bottomed mire smong the tangled 



mess of bushes and different kinds of 

 swamp grass, etc. My first day was 

 that of June 11, 1898. My cousin (Mr. 

 Doolittie) and I had planned to go to a 

 large marsh known as Mentor Marsh, 

 which is a place supposed to have been 

 the old bed of Grand river; it began a 

 short distance from Lake Erie, ran 

 along side of the river alittle ways, then 

 turned and ran almost parallel with the 

 lake and finally emptying into Lake. 

 Some parts of this marsh^is covered witJr 

 woods and comparatively dry, other 

 portioEs contained bottomless and 

 black bayous, and other parts are cov- 

 ered with a dense growth of bushes. 

 Where marsh emptied in, lake was 

 covered with different kinds of swamp 

 grasses, and there is a deep, black 

 creek running through the center of 

 this portion. 



After packing our eatables, cigar 

 boxes with plenty of cotton, pencils, 

 note books, etc., I put in an extra pair 

 of pants for wading around in marsh 

 and then we were ready to start. The 

 place we were going to was the last 

 portion named, and was a distance of 

 about seven miles. We were carried 

 in a buggy about half the distance, 

 leaving us to walk the rest of the way. 

 By running a little way, we reached 

 there just in time to avoid getting a 

 good soaking. We went into an old, 

 barn and began at once to gather up 

 bits of straw to make up our nest. 



It stopped raining in a little while 

 and we began a short search for Long- 

 billed Marsh Wrens, which were very 

 common, and we found it had rained 

 so much that the water was about a 

 foot deep all over the marsh, besides 

 the channel was tilled up with sand. 



