UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS 



ZOOLOGY 



Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 1-124, pis. 1-4 February 13, 1912 



REPORT ON A COLLECTION OP BIRDS AND 

 MAMMALS PROM VANCOUVER ISLAND 



BY 



HARRY S. SWARTH 



(Contribution from the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology of the University of California) 



CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Introduction 1 



Itinerary and Descriptions of Localities 3 



The Birds 13 



Check-list of the Birds 13 



General Accounts of the Birds 15 



The Mammals 85 



Cheek-list of the Mammals 85 



General Accounts of the Mammals 85 



General Remarks on Distribution HO 



Literature Cited : 14 



INTRODUCTION 

 In 1910 Miss Annie M. Alexander organized and financed an 

 expedition for the purpose of collecting the higher vertebrates 

 on Vancouver Island. This she led in person during a large 

 part of the summer. Miss Alexander, accompanied by Miss 

 Louise Kellogg, left Berkeley on April 18, beginning the work of 

 collecting at Parksville, April 24. Here they secured the services 

 of Mr. E. Despard, an expert hunter and trapper, who remained 

 with the party throughout the summer and who secured nearly 

 all of the larger mammals taken. The writer left Berkeley on 

 June 4, arriving at the expedition's camp at Beaver Creek on 

 June 9. On July 1 Miss Alexander and Miss Kellogg returned 



