June 8, 1916 Canadian Pac. R.R. thru Saskatchewau Boundless level prairie; no stream-courses; slightly undulatory with shallow ponds in depression; five or six of these prairie ponds in sight at once; cultivable land mostly devoted to wheat; some with crop just coming up; some apparently missed this year. Occasional patches of willows and birch in depressions, but rare; farm buildings few, if any for miles. Prairie-dogs abundant. At daylight, and from then on, the songs of Western Meadowlark penetrated the train every few minutes. The birds sang from the fence posts as the train passed. Saw one pair of meadowlarks persistently attacking a prairie-dog as it ran them the grass paralleling the track. Saw a