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 Nov., 1919 BIRD NOTES' FROM SASKATCHEWAN 225
 * Antrostomus vociferus vociferus. Whip-poor-will. In looking up reeords

of the Whip-poor-will in western Canada, I eould find none for 8askatehewan. I was therefore glad to have the opportunity to investigate some reports I had heard of its occurrence along the Saskatchewan River east of Prince Albert. On July 15 of this year I reaehed the district near where'the South joins the .North Saskatchewan River, about thirty miles east of Prinee Albert. My guide and I arrived at our camp-site late in the evening; while putting up the tent, I was delighted to hear the bird I was after, "singing" in the poplar woods quite near us. The following nights I heard it much farther away, if it was the same bird, though my guide told me that some years one could hear three or four .birds "singing" in the neighborhood. Evidently it had moved to another "bush" about a mile from camp. I loeated it there on the. 20th, after tramphg the ground to and fro till late in the afternoon. It flushed a eouple of yards from my feet. This proved to be a male; eareful seareh in the neighborhood failed to diseover the female, and as I did not hear another songster the sue- ceeding nights I was there, apparently there was but the one pair in the district. Regina, Saskatchewan, August 18, 191.9. A PETUiN TO THE DAKOTA LAKE PEGION By FLORENCE MERRIAM BAILEY (Continued from page 193) 4 N the south shore of the lake where the Holboell family was generally found, families of Pied-bill and Horned Grebes were also seen, the east and south shores being the favorite feeding grounds of the Grebes of the lake. One family of peeping young Pied-bills was seen near shore where an oily green scum had formed on the water, so thick that a yellow and black snake squirmed its way along on top of it, its coils actually gathering and pil- ing up the greasy looking substance. In walking softly along the wooded bank above, I heard the Pied-bills talking and found them about a thin screen of tule. The mother gave a queer note of warning, whereupon the six young--easily recognized by their black and white striped neeks--swam out a little and watched me. Farther along some larger young, caring for themselves, swam along shore examining me, two of them, wet from diving, in profile showing wisps of sharp-pointed tails. One stretched its neck high to see me better, and as it turned its head from side to side was reflected in the still water near shore. Near the spot where the old H01boell drove off the light-cheeked Horned (rebe that used to swim by itself, on August 16, on looking through the trees I discovered a Horned Grebe swimming and diving with two almost grown white-throated young. Was this the mate of the light-cheeked one, come from her nest with her brood at last ? They noticed my least motion and kept out a little though evidently wanting to come in shore. The next day, in the same