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the vicdnity of Fort Anderson and from the eastern Barren 

 Lands. At nearly all of the Company's posts in the Mac- 

 kenzie Eiver District likewise, a number of skins were ob- 

 tained for the Smithsonian Institution, and the gentlemen 

 of the service above named were the contributors, together 

 with Messrs. Hardisty, Wilson, Lockhart, A. Flett, J. Flett, 

 W. Thomson, Smith, Gaudet, Taylor, Siibbiston, McDougall, 

 Camsell and MacFarlane. 



Among the many northern Mackenzie Kiver collectors of 

 those distant days to whom reference was made in my paper 

 on birds breeding in Arctic America, as well as those 

 specially referred to in these notes, but few besides the writer 

 are now (1908) living. I think they are Chief Factor 

 James McDougall, Chief Traders C. P. Gaudet, W. J. 

 McLean and William C. King, and Messrs. Murdo McLeod 

 and John Edward Harriott. Archdeacon Robert McDonald, 

 D.D., of Peel Eiver, also ranked among the number of suc- 

 cessful Smithsonian collectors of the early sixties of the last 

 century. Among those who have passed away are the 

 lamented naturalist, Eobert Kennicott; Chief Factors Wil- 

 liam L. Hardisty, Lawrence Clarke and J. S. Camsell ; Chief 

 Traders' Bernard E. Eoss, James Lockhart, John Wilson 

 and John Eeid, and Messrs. Strachan Jones, A. Mackenzie, 

 Andrew Flett, James Flett, J. Sibbiston and William Brass ; 

 also the recently deceased Bishop Grandin, D.D., of St. 

 Albert, Alberta,, and Archdeacon W. W. Kirkby, D.D., of 

 Eye, New York, both of whom contributed some interesting 

 specimens during their former missionary sojourn in the Mac- 

 kenzie District. Neither has death spared the Sniithsonian 

 Institution. The eminent Professors Henry and Baird, 

 together with the able Assistant Secretary, Dr. G. Brown 

 Goode, the genial and experienced zoologist, Major C. E 

 Bendire, and others, have been called away. 



