. The oist . THE OOLOGIST 147. Nest and Five Eggs. Western Savanna Sparrow. —Photo by Dr. A. G. Prill, Scio, Oregon. 148 THE OOLOGIST did not add to the pleasure of collect-ing. Swan Lake cannot properly becalled a lake at all as it is a shallowbody of water containing perhaps fif-teen hundred acres, and is well grownup to rushes, wild rice, cat-tail andswamp grass. It is a very easy mat-ter to wade in this marsh as the bot-tom is solid which is very much dif-ferent from most of the marshes inthe Middle West. This marsh is surely a paradise forthe Yellow-headed and Red-wingeuBlackbirds, as the
. The oist . THE OOLOGIST 147. Nest and Five Eggs. Western Savanna Sparrow. —Photo by Dr. A. G. Prill, Scio, Oregon. 148 THE OOLOGIST did not add to the pleasure of collect-ing. Swan Lake cannot properly becalled a lake at all as it is a shallowbody of water containing perhaps fif-teen hundred acres, and is well grownup to rushes, wild rice, cat-tail andswamp grass. It is a very easy mat-ter to wade in this marsh as the bot-tom is solid which is very much dif-ferent from most of the marshes inthe Middle West. This marsh is surely a paradise forthe Yellow-headed and Red-wingeuBlackbirds, as there were thousandsnesting here. When wading throughthe rushes one is in sight of nestsat all times. These birds are a men-ace to the crops within quite a dis-tance from their nesting ground, andmost of the farmers are up in armsagainst them on this account. It was here at this swamp that Itook my first set of Pied-billed Grebe,on this trip. It contained seven nest was in water about kneedeep. The nest extended to the
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