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Buffle-head—-band of 30+ includin -p
Lesser yellowlegs--7 g some full-grown young.

Semipalmated sandpiper--1
Bonaparte gull--2 adults, 7 young.

"Sanctuary Lake": Approximately the same dimensions as Shafer Lake
and connected with it by a small stream about a quarter mile in
length that dries out in summer. It is of quite different charac-
ter with steep shores that lack cover, deep water and little
submerged vegetation. No waterfowl were seen from shore and the
lake was not studied in detail.

"Snodgrass Lake": 1/2 mile long, 1/8 mile wide, connected by a

narrow stream with Shafer Lake and draining to Francois Lake
through a stream approximately 300 yards long .and 15 yards wide

at its widest point. The lake was reached by this route on August
8. The shores of the stream and the lake are boggy with the usual
sedge marsh between the water's edge and the surrounding willows
and alders. The bottom of the stream for a short distance above
its mouth on Francois Lake has a hard gravel bottom on which grow
masses of water starwort Callitriche autwmalis, various pondweeds
and thick beds of hornwort. Elsewhere (on August 8) the surface
was covered with lily pads and the water below filled with a dense
vegetation composed of the same species of plants found in Shafer
Lake. This condition pertained also to a wide area about the out-
let of the stream, to a bay at the north end of the lake and to a
belt 40 to 75 yards wide around the remainder of the lakeshore.
Elsewhere the lake is deep with no surface foliation. Invertebrate
life in the waters appeared to be identical with that of Shafer
Lake.

The only waterfowl observed were a female mallard accompanied
by six nearly full-grown young. With the food conditions pertain-
ing to both lakes identical, or at least closely similar, it is
difficult to understand why one should be well populated and the
other relatively uninhabited.

Other Lakes. Adjacent to the road between Burns Lake and Francois
Lake are a series of small lakes of from five to twenty acres
situated in willow bottoms and surrounded by boggy sedge marshes.
None was studied in detail but it was observed that several con-
tained a small number of ring-necked ducks or lesser scaup ducks.

Tohesinkut Lake: 10 1/2 miles long, 1 1/2 miles wide, 5 miles north
of Francois Lake, is one of the deep lakes with sand and gravel
beaches characteristic of the region. Several loons and Holboell

grebe were observed from shore

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