130 University of California Puhlieatums in Zoology [Vol.24 



ITINERARY AND DESCRIPTIONS OF LOCALITIES 



From Berkeley we proceeded directly to Telegraph Creek, the 

 head of navigation on the Stikine River. There we made arrange- 

 ments with the Barrington Transportation Company whereby their 

 river boat, running on fairly, regular schedule, deposited us at various 

 selected camp sites. Our collecting stations were carefully chosen, 

 both with regard to their location on the river, and to the accessibility 

 of stretches of surrounding territory. The last item is of importance 

 in a wilderness as generally impenetrable as are the forests of the 

 lower Stikine. 



Our itinerary, in detail, was as follows: left Berkeley, May 14; 

 left "Wrangell, Alaska, May 21 ; arrived Telegraph Creek, B. C, May 

 23 ; The Junction, May 25 to June 6 ; Telegraph Creek, June 6 to 26 ; 

 Glenora, June 27 to July 8 ; Doch-da-on Creek, July 8 to 26 ; Flood 

 Glacier, July 26 to August 8 ; Great Glacier, August 8 to 16 ; Sergief 

 Island, August 17 to September 7; Mitkof Island, August 26 to 29; 

 arrived Berkeley, September 15. 



TELEGRAPH CREEK 

 The town of Telegraph Creek is on the north bank of the Stikine 

 River, about 130 miles from, and 540 feet above, tidewater (Brooks, 

 1906, p. 49). It is about 160 miles from the general line of the coast 

 at the mouth of the river, following the course of the stream; less 

 than half that distance in an air line from the nearest point on the 

 coast. Telegraph Creek, the stream, flowing from the north, empties 

 into the river at this point. Near the town the river banks rise steeply 

 on either side to a series of terraces beyond." At many points these 

 enclosing walls are sheer cliffs of basaltic rock, several hundred feet 

 high, with long steep taluses extending below, sometimes to the river 's 

 edge. Telegraph Creek, for the last mile or two of its course, flows 

 along a narrow canon, the steep walls rising abruptly to the level 

 terraces above. In its upper reaches it follows a caiion the walls of 

 which are not particularly steep. The stream has its source in a 

 string of lakes at "the Summit," some twelve miles north of the point 

 where it empties into the Stikine, at an altitude of about 2600 feet. 

 The mountains rise to a much greater height on either side. About 

 two miles northwest of the town of Telegraph Creek is Sawmill Lake, 

 about a mile long. Four or five miles farther west lies the much larger 

 Alkali Lake. 



