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WA7i01 PiiAHTS FKU4 aTIHKIBO (iaev«ttion 7000 feet]. 
Bio Arribii Ooonty, Kew uexioo> 
L« Solrpas lacnstrie * Tula grass. Grows gunerally in wator all arotind laJtt. 
Places in great patches. Breeding place for coot and Hos. 34 and 36 and 
some duck. Black B. 
2. 
Scirous palud 08 U 8 « Grows In thick oatcheB and borders aloni^ lake ahore^ 
where ducks nest: also grows scattered well out in water. 
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3. 
Uordeuo .lubatum. Always on land, outer border. Ho nests in it. 
4 and 5. Tvpha latlfolla . Cat-tails grow In edge of water: make a lata growth: 
not coomon. 
6. Polygonum Inoamatum . ilost always out in water, thick. In patches. I bel- 
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lieve it produces some kind of food for water fowl. 
7. 
HUDDla prob* ourvioaruae iloas all over lake: in shallow water verv thick* 
8. 
Artemisia tridentata. Sage. Thic.: over hills, about lake, not among nine. 
Contains an abundance of small birds. 
9. 
Cleooe serrulata. In very thick natohes along open canyon beds and near lake. 
Stalk smells very offensive. Uuoming bird food. 
10. 
Potamogeton peotinatus. Yery abundant in fruit on the lake. August 7. 1913. 
STIHKIMO LAKE, KLV IJEXICO, AB A HHLEDIHG PiiESKlvVE ifOli VATEli FOHL. 
1 reooBimend Stinking Lake, in the Jioarilla Indian Koservation, Bio Arriba 
County, Hew ilexloo, as a candidate for a breeding reserve for water fowl. 
1st. Because It is practically of no other value, owing to Its sltvuitlon. 
2d. because, owint to its altitude of 7,000 feet, it attracts birds that 
are rare in this region that otherwise would go ouch farther north for the same 
oliaatioal conditions. 
3d 
It is peculiarly adapted to the breading of water fowl, as it has a 
