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and one Etiptoieta Claudia at an elevation but little less than 

 10,000 feet. An example of claudia was taken in Yellowstone 

 Park. Thus the collector's heart is occasionally gladdened by 

 meeting an old friend far from his accustomed haunts. 

 (To be continued.) 



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RECOLLECTIONS OF OLD COLLECTING GROUNDS. 



By H. F. WiCKHAM. 



I.— THE CCEUB D'ALENE DISTRICT. 



This region is reached by rail after a short ride from Spokane 

 Falls. Lying just inside of the western boundary of northern 

 Idaho, is the beautifully clear Lake Coeur d' Alene, some twenty- 

 five or thirty miles in length, irregular in shape and surrounded 

 by coniferous forests, now burnt over by at least one great fire 

 as shown by the charred logs which cover the ground in every 

 direction. The outlet is formed by the Spokane River, which 

 pursues a rapid and tortuous course past a few small villages and 

 eventually passes through Spokane Falls, where the water-power 

 developed is sufficient to run all the great mills that line its banks. 

 Along the course of the river much of the timber is small, or has 

 been so thinned out that it no longer has the character of a forest, 

 but near the lake it is still very heavj' in places. A few extensive 

 meadows near the outlet of the lake offer another feature in the 

 variety of available collecting grounds. 



My visit was made during the latter part of July and in early 

 August of the year 1889. In company with a friend, a conchol- 

 ogist, spent about three weeks in working the neighborhood of 

 CcEur d' Alene City, then the terminus of that branch of the 

 railroad and the point at which connections were made by steamer 

 for mining camps farther up the lake. It is a beautiful place for 

 collecting, and much of the adjacent scenery is both wild and 

 magnificent, though at the cime of my visit the hotel accommo- 

 dations were none of the best. Close by the town lies the mili- 

 tary post of Fort Sherman, and as a portion of the forests sur- 

 rounding the lake lie on the reservation there is some hope that 

 they may be preserved. 



Some of the best spots can only be visited by boat, and it was 

 through the kindness of our host that a skiff was kept constantly 

 at our disposal, a most important consideration, since it was often 



