396 Mr. J. H. Fleming on the [Ibis, 



his great report on the natural history of the Athabasca- 

 Mackenzie Reoion * he included all that was known of 

 the ornithology of the Churchill River up to 1908. 



When the boundaries of Saskatchewan were in 1912 

 extended north to include a part of the old North-West 

 Territory, so little was known at Regina of the natural 

 history of the northern part of the country that Angus 

 Buchanan determined to investigate the district lying be- 

 tween the Saskatchewan River and the Barren Grounds. 

 He left Prince Albert on 6 May, 1914, descended the 



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Beaver River, reached Lake Ile-a-la-Crosse on the 22nd, 

 the Churchill River on 1 June, the Reindeer River on the 

 28th, Reindeer Lake on 9 July, arriving at Port Du Brochet 

 in the newly extended Province of Manitoba on the 17th ; 

 he entered the Cochrane River on the 18th and Lake 

 Du Brochet on 1 August; his base camp was made north 

 of this lake, where he proposed to winter, but hearing of 

 the outbreak of the war he decided to return to Regina, 

 reaching that place on 15 January, 1915, after an absence 

 of eight-and-a-half months, during which he travelled nearly 

 3000 miles by canoe and dog-sleigh. The specimens col- 

 lected during this trip were divided, part being deposited in 

 the Museum at Regina, and part being handed over to me ; 

 they form a very important addition to our knowledge of the 

 birds of the region drained by the Churchill River, and 

 constitute in fact the first collection made in northern 

 Saskatchewan. After making a short report f of his trip 

 to the Provincial Museum at Regina, Mr. Buchanan returned 

 to his home in Scotland, enlisted in the Legion of Frontiers- 

 men (25th Royal Fusiliers) as a private, was sent to East 

 Africa and served throughout the campaign. Lie rose to 

 the rank of Captain, received the Military Cross, and on 

 being invalided home requested me to prepare a list of the 



* A Biological Investigation of the Athabasca-Mackenzie Region. 

 North American Fauna, No. 27. Bureau of Biological Survey, Wash- 

 ington, 1908. 



t Report of the Chief Game Guardian, 1914, pp. 33-34, 37-39; 

 Reoina, 1915. 



