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collect birds. I am under obligations to the Bureau of Biological 

 Survey of the United States Department of Agriculture, through its 

 chief, Dr. E. W. Nelson, for the loan of specimens and for the identi- 

 fication of certain mammals. To the Victoria Memorial Museum, 

 Ottawa, through Mr. P. A. Taverner, ornithological curator, and to the 

 Provincial Museum, Victoria, British Columbia, through the director, 

 Mr. F. Kermode, I am indebted for the loan of many specimens. 



To Major Allan Brooks, of Okanagan Landing, British Columbia, 

 I am under obligations for the loan of specimens, and for critical 

 comments and advice bearing upon my treatment of various species 

 of birds and mammals. Major Brooks also made the drawing of the 

 tail of the rock ptarmigan that is shown herewith. 



Plant names used in this report were kindly supplied by Professor 

 W. L. Jepson, of the University of California, based upon specimens 

 collected. 



In treating the birds the nomenclature used is that of the American 

 Ornithologists' Union Check-List (1910) and its supplements (1912, 

 1920), with siich modifications as T employed in my "Birds and 

 Mammals of the Stikine Region" (1922, p. 127). 



ITINERARY AND DESCRIPTIONS OF LOCALITIES 



We reached Hazelton the evening of May 25. On June 20 we 

 removed to Kispiox Vallej^ twenty-three miles north of Hazelton. On 

 July 15 return was made t» Hazelton, and several days devoted to 

 packing specimens and preparing for a mountain trip. On July 21 we 

 ascended Nine-mile Mountain. On August 14 we returned to Hazelton, 

 and on August 16 to Kispiox Valley. Final return to Hazelton was 

 made on September 17; on September 19 Strong took the train for 

 home, and on September 26 the writer took his departure. 



Hazelton 



The town of Hazelton is at the junction of the Skeena and Bulkley 

 rivers. The railroad station (Grand Trunk Pacific R. R.), some two 

 miles to the southeast, is 177 miles from the coast, at Prince Rupert, 

 and 973 feet above the sea. The town is in the low bottom lands 

 throiigh which the rivers flow. On either side of these bottom lands 

 steep bluffs rise, two hundred feet or more, above which the higher 



