538 NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. [no. 27. 



Many notes on the natural history of the region traversed appear 

 in the narrative. In the appendix are "Zoological Remarks" by Itich- 

 ardsou, being observations on the distribution of life in the region 

 between Hudson Hay ami Great Bear Lake, a nominal list of the 

 mammals obtained, and a list of the birds, in which the localities of 

 a few species are indicated, followed by a commentary " respecting 

 those which are objects of chase to the Indian hunter," with " a few 

 brief remarks on the specimens of the other species when they serve 

 for the elucidation of doubtful points of their history." 

 1836. King, Richard. Temperature of Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Plants, 

 Trees, and Earth, as ascertained at different times and places in 

 Arctic America, during Captain Back's Expedition. <Edin. New 

 Philos. Journal, XXI, pp. 150, 151. 



From observations made mainly at Great Slave Lake, and near the 

 mouth of Great Fish River. 



1836. King, Richard. Narrative of a journey on the Shores of the Arctic Ocean, 



in 1833, 1S34, and 1835; under the command of Capt. Back, R. N., 

 - vols., 12 mo: Vol. I, pp. I-IX, 1 .'512; Vol. II, pp. i-viii, 1-321. London. 

 In this narrative of Back's Journey of exploration down Great Fish 

 River, by the surgeon and naturalist of the expedition, are found a 

 great many notes on the natural history of the region traversed. 



1837. Richardson, John. Report on North American Zoology. <Rept. Sixth 



Meeting Brit. Assn. Adv. Sci. for 1836, V, pp. 121-224. 



Many species mentioned from the Athabaska and Mackenzie region. 



1838. Dease, Peter Warren, and Simtson, Thomas. An Account of the Recent 



Arctic Discoveries by Messrs. Dease and T. Simpson. Communicated 

 by J. H. Pelly, Esq., Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company. <Journ. 

 Royal Geog. Society; Vol. 8, pp. 213-225. 



A brief report by Dease and Simpson, addressed to the Governors 

 and Committee of the Hudson's Bay Company, and dated Fort Nor- 

 man, September 5, 1837. It gives an account of the expedition from 

 the time they left Fort Chipewyan to that date, when, after exploring 

 the seacoast from the mouth of the Mackenzie to Point Barrow, they 

 reached Fort Norman on their way to Fort Confidence on Great Bear 

 Lake. A few brief references are made to the fauna and flora of the 

 Arctic Coast. 

 1843. Richardson, John. Geographical Distribution of some American Birds. 

 <Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., NI, p. 484, 1843. 



A list of twelve species collected in the summer of 1S40, at Fort 

 Simpson on the Mackenzie. Most of these are for the first time re- 

 corded from the Mackenzie. 

 1843. Simpson, Thomas. Narrative of the Discoveries on the North Coast of 

 America ; effected by the Officers of the Hudson's Bay Company dur- 

 ing the years 1830-39. Svo, pp. 419. London. 



An account of the journey of Thomas Simpson and Peter Warren 

 Dease, of the Hudson's Bay Company, from Red River settlement to 

 the mouth of the Mackenzie, along the Arctic Coast to Point Barrow, 

 on Great Bear Lake, and on the Arctic Coast from the mouth of the 

 Coppermine eastward^ to Castor & Pollux River, east of Back's Great 

 Fish River, and back to Red River settlement. Notes on the natural 

 history of the region visited are found throughout the narrative. A 

 list of the plants collected, mainly by Mr. Dease, is contributed by 

 \Y. J. Hooker, and occupies pp. 109-41S. 



