Shung - 1921, Kuspiux, 23 mi. N. of Hazleton, B.C., '77. and the shores typical muskeg, nearly waist deep. It has many yellow pond-lilies and the borders are lined with dead poles, backed by straight Emerced Spruce (?) covered with grey moss. Pools of these are the larger live Spruce, and then the everlastings Poplar and Alder. The Muskegs are covered with Moss, Swamp grass and several kinds of very attractive flowers. Saw one lone Scaup Duck, presumably a male Lesser Scaup. There were several Tree Swallows, one Sparrow Hawk, and a few pairs of Purple Blackbird, one female of which I secured. This was all the visible life save one other bird which I secured, a typical Eastern Kingbird, which I shot while perched on a dead-pole near the water. He was beautiful, white below, clear grey above, and had striking white tail tips. This is another N.W. Record in all probability. Saw a male Purple Blackbird feeding over the Lily-pads like a Jacana, hopping from one pad to the next evidently eating insects. Coming back the Indians showed me how these Muskeg Spruces burn, by striking a match to the moss on one, it went up like powder and burned at very quickly. Saw where Beaver had cut willows and lily pads, as well as several canals thru the grass. Shot a Hairy Woodpecker coming home, which made three today, two beautifully clean-plumaged young and one adult!