80 Gruncltvig—On the Birds of Shiocton, Wisconsin. 
another's heifer. When no note is found, all remarks rest on 
my own observations. 
II. THE REGION AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE BIRDS. 
The rivers certainly deserve the greatest attention. Wolf 
River comes down from the great watershed in Langlade Co. 
and has flowed over a hundred miles when it reaches Shiocton. 
It is a tolerably important river and carries a large mass of 
water. It has its mouth in Winnebago Lake which again empties 
through Fox River into the arm of Lake Michigan so rich in 
birds, Green Bay, about 30 miles from Shiocton. The other 
river should rather be called a rivulet. Its whole length in a 
straight line is hardly over 25 miles. Yet it is called Shioc 
River. In autumn the rivers overflow a large tract of country. 
The water subsides as a rule in the course of the winter, but in¬ 
creases again when the ice breaks up. The highest water is 
about twenty feet above the lowest. In 1883, when I carefully 
measured the height of the water, it rose immediately upon the 
breaking up of the ice a little over a foot; but before the close 
of April it was three feet lower. Here it remained stationary 
till May 17, and during that time a very large tract of country 
was overflowed. Then it began to fall rapidly. June 19, it was 
five feet, July 2, nearly nine feet lower than at the breaking up 
of the ice. The 19th of June there was no overflow of any con¬ 
sequence. 
On both sides of Wolf River there are a multitude of old river 
beds. In spring, when all is overflowed, one can hardly see 
where the main river flows, but in summer the water is stagnant 
in most of these beds, since the main stream has formed banks 
along its course which in some cases are overgrown with very old 
trees. These banks are, as a rule, cut through by ditches which 
are the remnants of outlets, but after midsummer the ditches 
are not deep enough in most cases to maintain connection with 
the river. In the course of a few years the so-called “Old Wolf 
River” (in section 17) will be an old river-bed. Already a bar 
almost shuts off the inlet after midsummer, although it is only 
half a score of years since the river made for itself the present 
channel. 
