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290 THROUGH THE MACKENZIE BASIN
several land and water birds, entered in tbe aforesaid paper,
which certainly breed in tbe Anderson River country. These
omissions are noted herein, while some relative and confirmatory
reference is also made, but only to such of the
bird species of the present list as had been met with by us
in that northern region of the Dominion.
It may also be mentioned that this paper would have
seen the light months ago hut for the continued delay in
the completion of Bendire's great history, as well as in the
publication of the highly interesting report of the valuable
work accomplished by Mr. Edward A. Preble ( and his brother),
of the United States National Museum, of late years,
in a large section of the far- north region, embraced in both
papers. I had hoped to profit by way of corroboration of my
own by his very accurate determinations.
Since the publication in 1891 of the frequently referred-to
paper on the Anderson collections of 1861- 1866, the
canons of nomenclature adopted by the American Ornithological
Union, therein followed, have been amended, while
their latest ( 1906) revised and abridged Check List is again
adhered to in the present classification.
W A T E R B I R D S.
1. W E S T E R N GKEBB— ZEchomophorus occidentalis
( Lawrence).
On May 6, 1889, a male example was caught in a fishing-net,
along with two other grebes, at Fort St. James, Stuart's
Lake, the " headquarters " of the Hudson's Bay Company's
District of New Caledonia, British Columbia. The native
" Carrier" Indians by similar means annually capture
many ducks and other water birds. This species is rare,
and it is not supposed by them to breed in this quarter. The
measurements of this particular specimen, before skinning,
were respectively 26- 7- 45 and 2.7- 8 inches. Mr. Brooks
slates that it is tolerably common in the Fraser valley below
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| OCR | 290 THROUGH THE MACKENZIE BASIN several land and water birds, entered in tbe aforesaid paper, which certainly breed in tbe Anderson River country. These omissions are noted herein, while some relative and confirmatory reference is also made, but only to such of the bird species of the present list as had been met with by us in that northern region of the Dominion. It may also be mentioned that this paper would have seen the light months ago hut for the continued delay in the completion of Bendire's great history, as well as in the publication of the highly interesting report of the valuable work accomplished by Mr. Edward A. Preble ( and his brother), of the United States National Museum, of late years, in a large section of the far- north region, embraced in both papers. I had hoped to profit by way of corroboration of my own by his very accurate determinations. Since the publication in 1891 of the frequently referred-to paper on the Anderson collections of 1861- 1866, the canons of nomenclature adopted by the American Ornithological Union, therein followed, have been amended, while their latest ( 1906) revised and abridged Check List is again adhered to in the present classification. W A T E R B I R D S. 1. W E S T E R N GKEBB— ZEchomophorus occidentalis ( Lawrence). On May 6, 1889, a male example was caught in a fishing-net, along with two other grebes, at Fort St. James, Stuart's Lake, the " headquarters " of the Hudson's Bay Company's District of New Caledonia, British Columbia. The native " Carrier" Indians by similar means annually capture many ducks and other water birds. This species is rare, and it is not supposed by them to breed in this quarter. The measurements of this particular specimen, before skinning, were respectively 26- 7- 45 and 2.7- 8 inches. Mr. Brooks slates that it is tolerably common in the Fraser valley below |
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