Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
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I think this is the only place in Rupert's Land where this species is found. We gave them the "go-by" last summer. The Indians call them kitch^-geskman, i. e., big king-fisher. Ducks and their nests are found evervwhere round the lake. The ruddy duck is sometimes found in swamps near this river, but they are more numerous at Shoal lake and Manitowaba. There are numbers of terns breeding annually at Shoal lake — some of them Digitized by VjOOQIC 430 NOTES OF AN EGGING EXPEDITION. TO SHOAL LAKE. ...on small, gravelly islands. These form their nests by removing the gravel, making hollows in which they lay their eggs ; othera of them take up their abodo among the reerfs and rushes. * Here with great industry and ingenuity they make then- nests of reeds and grass, fixing them in their place to keep them from float- ing away. When in Lake Winnipeg, in 1862, I ob8er\^ed that the terns which occupied sandy and gravelly islands made their nests as those do on the gravelly islands in Shoal lake ; and the terns found on the rocky island on the east side of the lake chose for their nest« depressions and clefts in the surface of the rocks.
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