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July 13, 1937 (cont) The rocky top of the little whaleback was covered with grass & a scatter growth of Red Oak, Hawthorne & Maple. upper slopes where we ascended a pure stand of red & mountain maple. Lower slope - butternut, (scarce) birch, aspen, spruce & hemlock, blue cedar. The two first confiders had suffered heavily last winter from ice, 10-12 feet of the tops being broken out of many of them. Skinned give birds & swam twice July 14, 1937 Left at 7:00 to mainland and drove to Mont Laurier & return getting back to house at 1:30 PM. Hot & still country difficult to hunt & tho I tried numerous places results were not good. Did see a number of birds. Country entirely cut over & a waste of rocks - aspen, birch etc. with small patch farms scattered about. [[The following list is in two columns on this page]] [[left column]] √1. Loon 2 √2. Barn Swallow 55 √3. Maryland Yellowthroat 3 4. English Sparrow 16 √5. Phoebe 3 √6. Savannah Sparrow 20 √7. Starling 26 √8. Bronzed Grackle 10 9. House Wren 12 10. Vesper Sparrow 4 √11. Crow 12 √12. Song Sparrow 6 13. Rough winged Swallow 2 14. Rw. blackbird 15 [[right column]] √15. Robin 5 √16. Chickadee 4 √17. White throated Sp 10 √18 Red eyed Vireo 15 √19 Goldfinch 10 √20 Bluebird 4 √21 Meadowlark 2 √22. Kingfisher 2 √23. Scarlet Tanager 1 √24 Least Flycatcher 3 √25 Ovenbird 3 √26. Kingbird 4 √27 Redstart 4 √28 Magnolia Wr 1