NO.1405. MAMMALS OF NORTHWEST TERRITORIES— MACFARLANE. 075 



The scope of country embraced hy the folhjwing- notes is, in the 

 main, the same northern section ol' the Mackenzie River District 

 referred to in the aforesaid paper on arctic birds and eggs. It is 

 bounded on the north by the Pohir Sea, to the outlet of the MackiMizie 

 River; on the east, I)}' the coast of Franklin Ba}^, from Cape Bathurst 

 to its depth in Langton Harbor; on the west, by the lower Mackenzie 

 River; and, on the south, hy the sixty-seventh parallel of north latitude 

 to its intersection with longitude IS-t*^ west. The period during which 

 the collections herein mentioned were mside extended from the begin- 

 ning of the vear ISCI to the end of Jul v. iNtu;. Fort Anderson (al)out 



,1818=1855. 



Fk;. 2. — Thk (.^ukkn's arctic mkhal. 



latitude 68'- 80' north, and longitude 12s west) was the principal 

 point of investigation. Jt was situated on the right bank of the Ander- 

 son River, first visit(>d by me in 1S.57. The Anderson River, which 

 diseml)ogues itself into Liverpool Bay, latitude TO- north, has its 

 sources in the Reverend A])be Petitot's ''Ti-Degale'' (Frost-hardened 

 Mountain), lying at some ''little distance'' to the jiorth of (jreat Bear 

 Lake. For this exploration and the recovery in June, 1862, of the 



l)arrier from bank to bank, with an ojien space near th(» centei', in whicli a net \\:is 

 placed, and by means of which (piite a larixe number of wliite fish and dllicr lish 

 were annually secured in cdurse of (he twn <ii- three weeks " run." Theolher mark- 

 ing on the ice is that of a do.Li; meat-haulin*;: and Indian winter track to the country 

 lying across the Anderson River to the west of the fort. 



