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WATER PLANTS FROM STINKING LAKE, (Elevation 7000 feet),
Rio Arriba County, New Mexico.

1. [[underline]] Scirpus lacustris.[[/underline]] Tula grass. Grows generally in water all around lake. Places in great patches. Breeding place for coot and Nos. 34 and 36 and some duck Black B.

2. [[underline]] Scirpus palodosus [[/underline]]. Grows in thick patches and borders along lake shore, where ducks nest; also grows scattered well out in water.

3. [[underline]] Hordeum jubatum [[/underline]]. Always on land, outer border. No nests in it. 

4 and 5. [[underline]] Typha latifolia [[/underline]]. Cat-tails grow in edge of water; make a late growth; not common.

6. [[underline]] Polygonum incarnatum [[/underline]]. Most always out in water, thick, in patches. I believe it produces some kind of food for water fowl.

7. [[underline]] Ruppia prob. curvicarpa [[/underline]]. Moss all over lake; in shallow water very thick.

8. [[underline]] Artemisia tridentata [[/underline]]. Sage. Thick over hills, about lake, not among pine. Contains an abundance of small birds.

9. [[underline]] Cleome serrulata [[/underline]]. In very thick patches along open canyon beds and near lake. Stalk smells very offensive. Humming bird food.

10. [[underline]] Potamogeton pectinatus [[/underline]]. Very abundant in fruit on the lake, August 7, 1913.

STINKING LAKE, NEW MEXICO, AS A BREEDING PRESERVE FOR WATER FOWL.

I recommend Stinking Lake, in the Jicarilla Indian Reservation, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, as a candidate for a breeding preserve for water fowl.

1st. Because it is practically of no other value, owing to its situation.
2d. Because, owint [[sic]] to its altitude of 7,000 feet, it attracts birds that are rare in this region that otherwise would go much farther north for the same climatical conditions.
3d. It is peculiarly adapted to the breeding of water fowl, as it has a