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home, while the writer, together with Despard, continued the 

 work at various points until September 28. The accompanying 

 map (pi. 1) shows the country traversed and the various col- 

 lecting stations. 



The material collected consists of 55-4 mammal skins with 

 skulls, 1142 birds, three sets of birds' eggs and four nests, 

 twenty-three reptiles and two batrachians. In addition to these, 

 two marten skins with skulls were purchased from Despard, and 

 a wolf and a wolverine skin from the storekeeper at Nootka 

 Sound, after the termination of the trip. Owing to the small 

 number of reptiles and batrachians collected, and to the total 

 lack of comparable material from the neighboring mainland, it 

 was not thought advisable to include them in this report, which 

 consequently deals solely with the birds and mammals. The 

 collections of the expedition were all donated by Miss Alexander 

 to the University of California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 

 and together with the field notebooks of the various members of 

 the party, form the basis of the present report. 



One hundred and eleven species of birds are listed, eighty- 

 nine of which were collected. This is in no sense to be taken as 

 a complete catalogue of the birds of Vancouver Island. Many 

 other species are known to occur, but only those actually en- 

 countered by our party are included in the list. Specimens were 

 secured of each of the twenty species of mammals included in 

 the report, but there are additional species known to occur on 

 Vancouver Island, with which we did not meet. 



The elk (Cervus canadensis occidentalis) , formerly abundant 

 over the entire island, is still to be found in many of the wilder 

 parts, but it is strictly protected, and, lacking permission to take 

 specimens, we made no attempt to penetrate its haunts. The 

 English rabbit (Orijctolagus cuniculus) was introduced into 

 Vancouver Island years ago (see Brown, 1868, p. 417), and I 

 was told by several people of the occasional occurrence of rabbits 

 as far north as the vicinity of Alberni, but we saw none our- 

 selves. There are also species of bats that should occur here, 

 which we did not secure. 



In color descriptions Ridgway's Nomenclature of Colors, 

 1886 edition, has been the basis of comparison. All measure- 



