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- 2 - The pines to the east and southeast contain many song birds, while in the cliffs in the same place cliff swallows nest. Floating all through the deep water in the lake is little long moss leaves, green, about one quarter inch long. Timber growing near the lake: Cottonwood and willow on the shore not very much. Red cedar, cherry near lake, yellow pine (east side), blue spruce, fir (some high up in canyon heads), quaking asp (very little), pinyon (abundant), sunflower. SUMMARY OF STINKING LAKE AND ESTIMATE OF BIRDS. Area, when full (lacks at present about three feet, being up to outlet) about four square miles. Shore line, about 12 miles. Depth, am told, 9 feet (deepest). Elevation, 7000 feet. Birds (estimated) July 20, 1913. Specimen No. Name Number of Birds. 34 Eared grebe (2/3 nesting) 1000 36 Pied-billed grebe (all nesting) 50 36 Coot (all nesting) 2000 44 & 47 Yellowhead blackbird (old and young) 1000 42 Red-wing (mostly nesting 100 ____ Total 4150 Great blue herons 3 41 Black-crowned Night Heron (many vacant nests in willows). 25 Ducks (I judge one pair out of every 50 birds breeding. Perhaps all told 150 pair nesting (breeding)). total number of ducks 7500 Yellowthroats and marsh wrens 200 ______ Total number of birds 11878 In these numbers I include the isolated lake to the northeast of main