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NATURALIST'S GUIDE TO THE AMERICAS 



Mines, a North West Passage, 

 etc., in the years 1769, 1770, 

 1771 and 1772. 4to, pp. i-xliv, 

 1-458. London, 1795. There is 

 also a Dublin edition, 8vo, 1796, 

 and an&ther London edition, 

 1807. 



Contains, scattered through- 

 out the narrative, many notes 

 on the mammals and birds of 

 the region; Chapter X, pp. 358- 

 458, treats exclusively of the 

 natural history of the Barren 

 Grounds, and the Great Slave 

 Lake and Hudson Bay regions. 



1801 Mackenzie, Alexander. Voy- 

 ages from Montreal, on the 

 River St. Laurence, through 

 the Continent of North Amer- 

 ica, to the Frozen and Pacific 

 Oceans; in the years 1789 and 

 1793. With a preliminary ac- 

 count of the rise, progress and 

 present state of the Fur Trade 

 of that country. 4to, pp. 412. 

 London. 



Mackenzie was the first trav- 

 eler to descend the Mackenzie 

 River; and the first to cross 

 the continent north of Mex- 

 ico, which he accomplished by 

 ascending the Peace and de- 

 scending the rivers west of the 

 divide. His narratives of these 

 voyages contain many notes 

 on natural history. 



1826 Parry, William Edward; and 

 Ross, James Clark. Journal 

 of a Third Voyage for the Dis- 

 covery of a Northwest Passage 

 from the Atlantic to the Pacific ; 

 performed in the years 1924-25, 

 in His Majesty's Ships Hecla 

 and Fury, under the orders of 

 Captain William Edward Parry. 

 4to, pp. i-xxvii, 1-186; 1-151. 

 (Appendix on Zoology, Ross, 

 pp. 1-151.) 



The zoological appendix 

 refers mainly to the natural 

 history of Port Bowen, where 

 the expedition wintered, and 

 other points about Prince 

 Regent Inlet. A few notes on 

 natural history occur in the 

 narrative. 



1829 Richardson, J. Fauna Boreali- 

 Americana. Part First. Quad- 

 rupeds. 4to, pp. i-xlvi, 1-300. 

 London, 



This work, in which the 

 material accumulated on the 

 first two journeys of Franklin 

 and the early voyages of Ross 

 and Parry is elaborated, con- 

 tains a great deal of informa- 



tion on the mammals of the 

 Athabaska and Mackenzie 

 region. 



1831 SwAiNSON, W., AND Richardson, 

 J. Fauna Boreali-Amencana. 

 Part Second. The Birds. 4to, 

 pp. i-lxvi, 1-524. London. 



This publication was for many 

 years the standard work on the 

 birds of British America. 



1875 Petitot, E. Geographie de 

 L'Athabaskaw-Mackenzie et des 

 Grands Lacs du Bassin Arctique. 

 Bulletin de la Societe de Geog- 

 raphie. Pp. 5-42 (July); pp. 

 126-183 (August); pp. 242 290 

 (September) ; with a map of the 

 region from Great Slave Lake 

 northward. 



A geographical and general 

 description of the region, based 

 mainly on the explorations of 

 the author, for many years a 

 missionary in the Mackenzie 

 region. Traveling mainly on 

 snowshoes, he visited many 

 remote districts never before 

 explored. The present account 

 and map may be considered the 

 official announcement of some 

 of his geographical discoveries. 



1888 Greely, Adolphus W. Report 

 on the Proceedings of the 

 United States Expedition to 

 Lady Franklin Bay, Grinnell 

 Land. [Report of International 

 Polar Expedition.] 2 vols.; 

 pp. 545, 738. Washington. 



This e.xpedition left the 

 United States in the Proteus in 

 the summer of 1881 and returned 

 in 1884. Headquarters were 

 established at Fort Conger. 

 In Appendix 129 (Vol. II, pp. 

 1-10) and App. 131 (Vol. II, 

 pp. 19-37, are given the reports 

 on mammals and birds, respec- 

 tively. In connection with the 

 notes recorded on this expedi- 

 tion, many recorded by other 

 northern expeditions are given. 

 This is particularly true in the 

 case of birds (Vol. II, pp. 30-37) 

 where the principal notes made 

 by several Arctic observers 

 are summarized in tabular form. 



1890 Macfarlane, Roderick Ross. 

 Land and Sea Birds nesting 

 within the Arctic Circle in the 

 Lower Mackenzie District. 

 Transaction 39, Historical and 

 Scientific Society of Manitoba, 

 season 1888-9 (1890). 



An annotated list of the birds 

 observed and taken in the 

 Anderson Eiver region, from 



