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1893. Petitot, Emile. Exploration de la Region du Grand Lac des Ours 



(Fin des Quinze ans sous le Cercle Polaire), Par Emile Petitot, ancien 

 missionaire arctique, etc. Ouvrage accompagne de gravures et de 

 deux cartes dessinees par 1'auteur. Svo, pp. 469. Paris. 



A general account of the Great Bear Lake region, including short 

 notices of the early expeditions which wintered there, but mainly 

 based on several journeys of exploration made by the author mostly 

 during the winter months between the years 1867 and 1878. Many 

 notes on natural history occur. 



1894. Milne, J. W. The Panther in Canada. <The Biological Review of 



Ontario. Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 81-83. October, 1894. 



Notes the occurrence of the panther in several localities in the 

 mountains of southwestern Alberta in 1883 and 1884. 



1894. Tyrrell. J. Burr. An Expedition through the Barren Lands of Northern 



Canada. <The Geographical Journal, Vol. IV, No. 5, pp. 437-450, 

 November, 1894. 



A short account of an exploration between Athabaska Lake and 

 Chesterfield Inlet in 1S93. A few notes on the fauna are given. 



1895. . Coleman, A. P. Mount Brown and the Sources of the Athabasca. 



<The Geographical Journal, Vol. V, No. 1, pp. 53-61, January, 1895. 



An account of an exploration of the region about the sources of the 

 Athabaska in 1893. A few notes on the fauna are siiven. 



1895. Tyrrell, J. Burr. A Second Expedition through the Barren Lands of 



Northern Canada. <The Geographical Journal, Vol. VI, No. 5, pp. 

 43S-44S. November, 1895. 



A short account of an expedition through eastern Athabaska and 

 Mackenzie, by way of Reindeer Lake and Kazan and Ferguson rivers 

 in 1894. A few notes on the fauna are given. 



1896. Riioads, Samuel N. Synopsis of the Polar Hares of North America. 



<Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1896, pp. 351-376. 



Skin of polar hare, supposed to be referable to an undescribed spe- 

 cies, recorded from Great Slave Lake. 

 1896. Tyrrell, J. Burr. Report on the Country between Athabasca Lake and 

 Churchill River with notes on two routes travelled between the Church- 

 ill and Saskatchewan Rivers. <Annual Report Geological Survey of 

 Canada, VIII (new series), Part D, pp. 5D to 120D. 



Chiefly physiographical and geological; notes on fauna pp. 13D and 

 14D, and here and there throughout the report. 



1896. Whitney, Caspar. On Snow-shoes to the Barren Grounds. Twenty- 



eight hundred miles after Musk-oxen and Wood-bison. Svo, pp. 324. 

 New York. 



An account of a journey, made mainly on snowshoes, from Edmonton, 

 Alberta, to the Barren Grounds north of Great Slave Lake, and return. 

 Numerous notes on natural history are given. 



1897. Coues, Elliott. Early Notice of Gavia adamsi. <Auk, XIV, p. 402. 



Attention called to Franklin's recognizable description of this bird 

 as occurring at Fort Enterprise. 

 1897. Tyrrell, J. Burr. Report on the Doobaunt, Kazan and Ferguson Rivers 

 and the North-west Coast of Hudson Bay, and on two overland routes 

 from Hudson Bay to Lake Winnipeg. <Annual Report Geological 

 Survey of Canada, IX (new series), 1896, Part F. (1897.) 



