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and when the blue haze of the " Indian summer" spreads 

 through and over the mellow landscape, the stillness is 

 such that the boatman's voice a mile out on the calm 

 lake, each blow of the distant woodsman's axe, or the 

 cry of far-off waterfowl echo through the air with 

 a distinctness which is perfectly marvellous. 



Many localities are noted year after year as being 

 especially resorted to during these migrations : a circum- 

 stance which may be accounted for as well by the nature 

 and abundance of the food and shelter they afford, as by 

 the fact that the Anatidae generally, unless systematically 

 disturbed, will annually seek food and rest at the same 

 halting-places along their route. 



As instances. Green Island, Cacouna, and other places 

 in the Lower Province ; Long Point Island on Lake Erie ; 

 Turkey Point, nine or ten mUes from it ; Burlington Bay, 

 on Lake Ontario; Baptiste Creek, and last, though not 

 least, the St. Clair River, have long enjoyed their present 

 fame. At the latter, Captain Strachan of Toronto, a well- 

 known sportsman, with only one other gun, lately killed 

 no less than four wild swans, ten wild geese, and 685 

 ducks of different kinds in sixteen days. The variety, 

 too, of the wildfowl in these and a hundred other 

 places is most remarkable, and whether with the naturalist 

 or mere sportsman adds immensely to the pleasure of 

 the day's shooting. 



