30 Brooxs, Birds of the Chilliwack District, B. C. [jue 
In May, 1887, I arrived in this region with my father, the late 
W. E. Brooks, who had bought a farm close to the village of Chilli- 
wack. I was then eighteen years of age and chuck full of enthusi- 
asm. All my spare time in the intervals of ranch work was devoted 
to ornithology, and aided by my father the valley was worked in a 
systematic manner. After four years, my father sold his ranch and 
returned to the east and the writer took up zodlogical collecting 
as a profession. 
Most of his subsequent bird collections went to the museum of 
Mr. William Brewster and later a good deal of material was sup- 
plied to Mr. Outram Bangs and to Drs. Dwight and Bishop, while 
working out the fauna of British Columbia in this and other por- 
tions of the Province. 
From 1894 when I returned to the west after a year or two in 
Ontario, most of my time was taken up in mammal collecting, some 
sixty species being recorded from the Chilliwack region, but a 
careful lookout was always kept for new birds. In all about eleven 
years were spent in this district resulting in the region being more 
thoroughly worked ornithologically than any other portion of the 
Province. 
The sketch map which accompanies this list indicates the posi- 
tion of the locality. The region enclosed in the heavy black line 
embraces the entire area in which the observations here recorded 
were made. Species of which no specimens were taken or exam- 
ined by the writer are preceded by an asterisk. It will be seen 
that there are only four in this category out of a total of 257. 
In conclusion I must acknowledge my deep indebtedness to 
Messrs. Brewster, Ridgway, and Oberholser, and to Drs. Dwight 
and Bishop for their painstaking care in comparing and indentify- 
ing closely allied subspecies for me. 
List oF THE Brrps oF CHILLIwack, B. C. 
1. chmophorus occidentalis. Western GresE.— Common mi- 
grant. 
2. Colymbus holbelli. Hoisa@ui’s Grese.— Fairly common mi- 
grant and may breed in the Harrison Lake district to the north. 
3. Colymbus auritus. Hornep GrespeE.— Common migrant. 
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