8 Joint Bulletin 6 



The second forenoon was rainy but in the afternoon we went 

 down to "the gut," as the passage between North and South Hero is 

 called, and botanized on the low shores of South Hero. In the woods 

 back from the shore were the moonseed, Menispermum canadense, and 

 Sanicula trifoliata, among a host of other plants common to such 

 situations. 



On the shore we found the arrow heads, Sagittaria graminea, and 

 (S. arifolia, hedge hyssop, Gratiola virginica, the pipewort, Eriocaulon 

 septangulare, the sedge, Cyperus aristatus, the rushes, Juncus pelo- 

 carpus and J. nodosus and, last but not least, a new plant for the state, 

 the waterwort, Elatine americana; also another rarely found, Myriophyl- 

 lum tenellum. Later, in a dried-up place, at North Hero, the bladder- 

 wort, Utricularia intermedia was discovered. About 50 kinds of birds 

 were seen. Altogether it was another one of our very pleasant and 

 profitable field meetings. 



List of Birds Seen 



The following list of birds seen on the trip was made by Dr. Anne 

 Perkins of Collins, N. Y.: Red-eyed vireo, warbling vireo, bank swallow, 

 barn swallow, purple martin (abundant), kingbird, yellow warbler, 

 black and white warbler, redstart, great-crested flycatcher, downy wood- 

 pecker, solitary sandpiper, black duck, herring gull, song sparrow, cat- 

 bird, robin, chipping sparrow, English sparrow, blue-winged teal, white- 

 breasted nuthatch, red-breasted nuthatch, chickadee, Wilson's thrush, 

 bluebird, white-throated sparrow, green heron, blue heron, northern 

 water thrush, chimney swift, goldfinch, king fisher, crow, swamp spar- 

 row, least flycatcher, northern yellowthroat, American bittern, vesper 

 sparrow, field sparrow, cowbird, cedar waxwing, bronze grackle, red- 

 winged blackbird, kildeer. 



NEXT SUMMER'S MEETING 



As Averill Lake, which has been suggested, is such an out of the 

 way place to get to by rail — it taking two days to go from the middle 

 eastern part of the state — and as the lake has been raised artificially 

 so that there is no particularly good botanizing due to the obliteration 

 of the old shore line, it has been decided that the Vermont Botanical 

 club and the Vermont Bird club will go to Tyson and Plymouth for 

 their 1920 field meeting. There are several bogs in this vicinity and 



