Outing . YOUNG SHOVELLER OR SPOONBILL. YOUNG AMERICAN COOTS OR MUD-HENS tumn before, because, we barely got sat-isfactory information before it was nearlytime to start. It was to be Lake Winni-pegosis, in the unsurveyed wilderness ofnorthern Manitoba. Even thus we hadto go partly on faith, for during the longperiod while the ice is softening the fewisolated inhabitants up the lake have nocommunication with the outside all accounts, though, it was a typ-ical breeding resort of the canvasback,where for milej tall canes and rushesgrow out of the water in the intermi-nable marsh and mus
Outing . YOUNG SHOVELLER OR SPOONBILL. YOUNG AMERICAN COOTS OR MUD-HENS tumn before, because, we barely got sat-isfactory information before it was nearlytime to start. It was to be Lake Winni-pegosis, in the unsurveyed wilderness ofnorthern Manitoba. Even thus we hadto go partly on faith, for during the longperiod while the ice is softening the fewisolated inhabitants up the lake have nocommunication with the outside all accounts, though, it was a typ-ical breeding resort of the canvasback,where for milej tall canes and rushesgrow out of the water in the intermi-nable marsh and muskeg—a paradise forsuch as like that sort of thing. We made it a Government expedi-tion, a party of four. A. C. Bent, theornithologist, was one member, repre-senting the Smithsonian Institution, se-curing material for the Governmentwork on Life Histories of North Amer-ican Birds. Assisting him was F. , of Taunton, Mass. My assist-ant was my son, G. Curtiss Job, senior inYale University, who took part in theprevious expedition
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