1913] The Ottawa Naturalist. 17 



BOOK NOTICE. 



Canadian Alpine Journal; Special Number; pp. 96, with 

 map and many plates. This special number of the Canadian 

 Alpine Journal is made up of reports on the mammals, birds 

 and plants collected and noted by the naturalists who accom- 

 panied the Alpine Club expedition to Jasper Park, Mount Robson, 

 and the Yellowhead Pass, in July and August, 1911, and forms a 

 supplement to the detailed, fully illustrated report of the 

 Topographical Section of the Alpine Club published in Vol. IV 

 of the Canadian Alpine Club Journal . Copies of both the Journal 

 and the special number here reviewed may be had from the 

 Secretary -Treasurer of the Alpine Club, Sidney, B.C., the price 

 of the latter being $1.00. 



About half of the special number is made up of Mr. N. 

 Hollister's report on the "Mammals of the Alpine Chib Expedi- 

 tion to the Mount Robson region," which is prefaced by a short 

 itinerary and the delimitation of the life-zones represented in 

 the region covered by the expedition. Six new mammals are 

 described, two bats (Myotis pernox and Myotis altifrons), a 

 marmot (Marmota sibila), a chipmunk (Eutamias ludibundus), 

 a spermophile (Callosperophilus lateralis tescorum) and a caribou 

 (Rangifer jortidens). Very full descriptive and other notes make 

 this list of mammals the most valuable one that has been publish- 

 ed on the Canadian Rocky Mountain region. It is followed by a 

 short list of the Reptiles and Batrachians. 



In his paper on the birds collected or observed on the 

 expedition, Mr. J. H. Riley enumerates seventy-eight species, 

 and while no new forms are described not the least valuable 

 part of Mr. Riley's contribution is his notes on the habits of some 

 of the more important birds, and the plumage and other varia- 

 tions noted. Altogether his list will be of great value to visitors 

 to Jasper Park and will serve as a basis for future work in that 

 region. As no species are enumerated which were not collected 

 or noted by the Alpine Club party the list is not complete, but is 

 all the more valuable on that account, as no doubtful species are 

 included. 



Messrs. Hollister and Riley made in connection with their 

 work a small collection of plants, 147 in all. These plants have 

 been determined, and four species described, by Mr. Paul C. 

 Standley. It is unfortunate that Mr. Standley should have 

 prefaced his paper by saying that : "It was to be expected that 

 plants from this particular area, where previously no botanical 

 collections had been made, would contain many things of in- 

 terest." As a matter of fact many of Drummond's types were 

 collected in or near this very area, and, in 1898, Mr. William 

 Spreadbo rough, of the Geological Survey staff, spent the whole 



