List of Birds and Eggs 



The writer of these ISTotes has for some time bade 

 thought of preparing the following brief account of the com- 

 paratively small, though somewhat interesting, collections 

 made by him and under his auspices while he held the 

 charge of the Hudson's Bay Company's Fur-Trade Districts 

 of Athabasca, in the northern portion of the new Province 

 of Alberta ; ISTew Caledonia, in British Columbia ; and Cum- 

 berland, in the Province of Saskatchewan. A few of these 

 specimens were also obtained from Forts Eae and Provi- 

 dence, Mackenzie River District. 



Before proceeding further he must acknowledge that, in 

 accomplishing this important field work, he was much in- 

 debted to the exertions, cheerfully rendered, of the following 

 gentlemen of the Company's service, namely : Factor William 

 M. MacKay; Chief Traders John Wilson, William C. 

 King (and wife), John Eeid, and Webster Scott Simpson; 

 and to Messrs. Henry MacKay, Charles Ogden, Joseph Mer- 

 credi, Joseph Hourston, Edward Haight, James Flett, Angus 

 Mcintosh, Horace Belanger, jr., and A. C. Murray. 



Fully three-fifths of the Athabasca portion of the re- 

 fc-rred-to collections, made during the nesting season of 1880 

 and 1885, were forwarded to John J. Dalgleish, Esquire, a 

 noted Scottish ornithologist, and the balance of both (nearly 

 all of which was unfortunately destroyed by water en route 

 to Ottawa) to Dr. Robert Bell, the then Assistant Director 

 of the Dominion Geological Survey at the Capital, while 

 the whole of the considerably more important JSTew Cale- 

 donia collections of 1889, and that made in Cumberland in 



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