446 BIRDS OF ARCTIC AMERICA MACFARLANE. 



plants, and shells were gathered for the Smithsonian Institution, besides a consider- 

 able collection of ethnological specimens pertaining to the Esquimaux of the Ander- 

 son and Mackenzie Rivers, while a list of the mammals obtained and observed by 

 me in the northern regions of the Dominion may possibly form the subject of a similar 

 but shorter paper in the near future. 



R. MacFarlane. 

 FoKT St. James, Stuart's Lake, 



New Caledonia District, 



British Columbia, June 25, 1889. 



Additional Note. — Early in July, 1889, the manuscript of the aforesaid notes 

 was transmitted to President Bell, but several months passed before it was read by 

 him at a meeting of the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba, Wiunipeg. Twa 

 or three more months elapsed ere the paper itself was published as Transaction No. 

 39, Season 1888-'89. The sample copy thereof received by me at this place contained 

 so many printer's errors, besides some introduced nomenclature, that I asked Mr. 

 Bell to have it reprinted ; but as this was impossible, I have decided on publishing 

 an edition of the notes in question, which I hope will jirove more acceptable ta 

 naturalists, as the referred-to blemishes have been removed, while I have also made a 

 few corrections and additions kindly pointed out by a friend (Capt. Charles E. Bendire, 

 U. S. Army), in Washington, who, from his long and important connection with the 

 Smithsonian Institution and the U. S. National Museum, had become well acquainted 

 with the variety and extent of the Fort Anderson collections. 



R. MacFarlane. 



Cumberland House, Cu.mberland District, 



• Saskatchetvan, N. JV. T., November 25, 1890. 



