Field Notebook: Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, Ontario 1916, 1917, 1920
Page 39
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"the most common found. Saw no Erynnis leadi. Left Watertown at 6.40. Stopping at the Le Roy Hotel. Lowville is one of the prettiest villages I have seen along the route. Watertown, R. Y., Sep. 5 - Tuesday. Spent the morning collecting in the Lowville and Watertown (= Bleda Run) north of the city. The Watertown area has to be most advantageous in a large pasture to the north of Watertown less than three miles out. Osmocerus is abundant here and Lomicrocerus rare (one specimen was seen about 8 inches across the aperture, and 8 inches long indicating a length of about 12 inches). We also saw an occasional bug endrocerus of an Endrocerus, Cystoecus, and Eurystmites. Of bachiopods Orthos triemaria O. subsquata, sericatus, R. alternata, R. microcerus, a simple