Field notes: Eastern United States trip, book 1, v4545
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June 7, Nipigon 109 Nipigon, 7:30 a.m. - Last night heard many frogs, even above noise of rain. Heard bird when train stopped a few minutes: Heresi Wren, White-throated Sparrow and Robin, all in full song. The north shore of Lake Superior is hilly and intimately wooded except where burned over or where, on level fluvial tracts, cleared for farming. Price seems to predominate, tho there is abundance of a short-leaved small pine resembling Pinus murayana, possibly an eastern representative of it. was a Loon out on Lake Superior, and also fully a dozen Herring Gulls near Port Arthur. From 8.55 to 15, in vicinity of an island station owned soon, noted: Bronzed Jackle 1, unknown 6, Crow 2, Kingfisher 1, White-throated Sparrows 1.