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The Ohio Naturalist. 
[Vol. VII, No. 7, 
at Oden, Crooked Lake, Michigan, with my uncle, G. T. Wil¬ 
liamson, and August 11th and 12th, were spent collecting there. 
Later my cousin, Jesse H. Williamson, caught a few specimens 
about Oden. These records are mentioned in the lists which 
follow. 
No birds or mammals were collected. The white-throated 
sparrows by their numbers and song were the conspicuous mem¬ 
bers of the avifauna. A small and exceedingly bold Buteo was 
frequently seen and heard. At lonely lakes, otherwise devoid 
of bird life, loons signaled my approach with their weird cries. 
Kingfishers rattled their displeasure or surpirse at my intrusion 
along their streams. Flocks of cross-bills* by their habits of 
flight and voice recalled the flocks of small parrots frequently 
seen in Central America. And in every thicket were numerous 
warblers unidentifiable to me without field glass or gun. About 
every lake and stream were innumerable dainty prints of deers’ 
hoofs, with occasionally the ox-like spoor of the moose. Though 
an insect collector has small chance of surprising large game 
three fawns were seen. Beaver dams are common on the 
streams. On Dam Creek, in a distiiace of less than a quarter of 
a mile were three small newly constructed dams, built largely of 
yellow birch. Mr. J. L. Naylor of Searchmont told me that 
fisher, otter, mink and all the other furbearing animals of 
interior Canada are taken along the Algoma Central. 
The following list of trees and bushes growing in the vicinity 
of Searchmont has been prepared for me by Mr. Naylor: Pine, 
white, Jack and Norway, the last very scarce; spruce; balsam; 
tamarack; white cedar; hard maple; white birch; yellow (or red 
or black) birch; ironwood; popple or balm of gilead; red oak, 
very scarce; hemlock, very scarce; soft elm; cherry, very scarce; 
black ash; mountain ash; tag alder; elder (red berried); red 
currant; black currant; hazel; wild rose; two species of willow; 
choke cherries; ground hemlock; gooseberry; dogwood; rasp¬ 
berries; blackberries; blue berries. 
Plaxts Determined by C. C. Deam of Bluffton, Indiana. 
Species preceded by a star (*) were taken at Searchmont, 
from August 6th to 10th. The other species were taken at 
Hayden, from July 31st to August 4th: 
Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn. 
Lycopodium lucidulum Michx. 
L. obscurum L. 
Sparganium androcladum 
(Engelm.) Morong. 
*S. simplex Huds. 
Potamogeton nuttallii Cham. & 
Sch. 
Sporobolus asperifolius (N. & M.) 
Hurb. 
Panicularia canadensis (Michx.) 
Kuntze. 
*From my description of size, colors and habits, Mr. W. E. C. Todd 
has so determined them. 
