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remainder of the fossils at station 4 and brought them down.

The bluebirds here are either western Sialia mexicana or chestnut backed Sialia mexicana bairdi, instead of mountain bluebirds Sialia currucoides. Saw a Marsh Hawk Circus cyaneus, Say Phoebe Sayornis saya and Sv. g. swallow Tachycineta thalassina, long crested jay Cyanocitta stelleri. Started down to Lake George Lake George, Colorado at 8:40 a.m. with horse and buggy. Lake about 5 miles below Florissant. On way saw rounded knobs which looked as if they were of glacial origin, but have found no moraines here.

At head of Lake George, which is an artificial lake said to have been made ice purposes etc. about 15 years ago, found caddis Trichoptera larva. Also found Limnaea Lymnaea similar to those from Meeker, in great abundance, but only on the delta. Found a few dead shells further down the lake shore but none alive there. In the mouth of Twin Creek Twin Creek, Colorado found a few Physa Physa, smooth like P. integra Physella_acuta, lying on the gravel, very hard to see. The Limnaea Lymnaea were on the muddy bottom of the delta, nearly all adult, but smaller specimens, probably young of same