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siderably as it recedes from the shores. The water of the lake 
has apparently risen in recent years., for the timber does not 
stop at the water’s edge but extends out for some distance, so that 
almost the whole lake is bordered by the bark-denuded trunks of 
trees long dead, standing with five or six feet of their bases below 
the surface of the lake. From Basin Lake there is a narrow strip 
of low, marshy land extending to Middle Lake, less than half 
a mile away. Through this low; strip a well-marked creek bed, 
filled with water, extends from Basin Lake to within a very few 
rods of Middle Lake and there abruptly ends, disappearing 
where there is a slightly higher strip of land on the edge of 
Middle Lake. The last named lake is smaller and there are 
numerous low islands in it. Lake Lenore, a few miles farther 
southeast, is the largest of the three, being about twelve miles long 
including the arm on the north, and about four miles across. 
The lake is surrounded on two sides by high hills. The shores 
of the arm,, differing from the shores of the main body of the 
lake and of the other lakes, are thickly strewn with a mass 
of large and small boulders. The water in Basin and Middle 
Lake is very bad, being hardly fit for use in making tea, to say 
nothing of drinking purposes. As Lake Lenore has an outlet 
during rainy years, the water is better. Crooked Lake, at the 
head of the Carrot River, is long, narrow and, as its name signi¬ 
fies, crooked. Its shores are high and covered, in great part, by 
timber. It has much the appearance of a, large river, and may 
possibly have been formed from an old river bed. 
Such, roughly, is the character of the region investigated. As 
may be imagined, many water-fowl resort annually, for breeding 
purposes, to this locality, where there is an abundance of suitable 
food and, as yet, little disturbance from the inroads of man. 
Of course, no claim is made as to completeness of the list. 
Many species were overlooked, no doubt, and others which were 
observed are not included in the list because of the unfamiliarity 
with them, and failure to secure specimens. 
It should be mentioned that the spring of 1902 was considered 
by the inhabitants of this region very wet,, cold, and backward, 
and this doubtless had much to do with the late and scattered 
nesting of many of the birds. 
The descriptions and measurements of nests and eggs given 
in this report were either made in the field, as in the case of the 
bulkier nests, or taken from specimens collected in the region in 
