WEALTH ON WINGS 



best nesting grounds for wildfowl this country ever 

 had are in lower and not upper Canada, are now 

 easily accessible by means of railroad communica- 

 tion, and are practically getting ready for the same 

 history as that of Minnesota and the Dakotas. 



We passed along the flyway of most of our marsh 

 ducks and many of our deep water ducks, as we see 

 them in the United States. In wide parts of the 

 Mackenzie River we saw a great many scoters, more 

 of that species than any other bird noted. We did 

 not see very many wild geese. The natives say 

 they breed far to the east and the traders say that 

 Hudson Bay is where the Canada geese breed. 

 The Canada geese, for instance, do not come to 

 Lake Athabasca, where the shooting is all on the 

 white geese. 



There is wild celery in one little lake I know of 

 close to Fort McPherson, which is in the southern 

 edge of the Mackenzie River delta, on the Peel 

 River. This plant may exist in others of the little 

 lakes between that point and the Arctic Red River. 

 I did not hear it spoken of as generally distributed 

 across the country, and do not believe it is often 

 found in the Far North. 



It was an odd thing to see our redbreasted robin 

 far above the Arctic Circle. I saw a robin's nest 

 at Fort MacMurray, two hundred and fifty-seven 



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