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now are generally fat, and they have ample time to frolic and scream.

I should change the name of the lake to "Alpine" or "Sage". "Stinking" is not applicable to the lake. "Sage" would be appropriate as the hills are covered with it.

On August 12th some cattle were watering on the west side of the lake.

DULCIE LAKE

Four miles south of Dulcie (the Indian Agency). Aug. 8, 1913.

At this little lake (elevation about 6700 feet) which is party artificial, having a dam thrown across the canyon at the north end. I found rather favorable breeding conditions. The lake, when up to the spillway, covers about 3/4 sq. miles. Surrounded by mountains and canyons. I am told by the authorities at Dulcie that the birds are rarely molested here. Some ducks winter here. When the lake is frozen over they go to the creek that runs out under the dam. The lake is fed by springs and the water in summer is used for irrigation. The lake now is about six feet below the spillway.

I found coot and young, redwing and young, ducks and downy young, and pied-billed grebe (No.36) rather common, with young; killdeer and young. Perhaps, all told, 100 birds here.

HORSE LAKE, RIO ARRIBA COUNTY, July 26 and 27, 1913.

This lake lies northeast of Stinking Lake, air line, about 12 miles. It is partly divided by the line of the Indian Reservation. It is now not quite up to ist spill-way, about one foot below. The lake lies almost on the crest of the Continental Divide, at an elevation of 7670 feet, by authority of Geological Post near. The lake has an eastern outlet to the Chama River.

At its present stage it is a little less than a mile long, with an