290 THKOUGH THE MACKENZIE BASIN 



several land and water birds, entered in the aforesaid papet, 

 which certainly breed in the Anderson River country. These 

 omissions are noted herein, while some relative and con- 

 firmatory reference is also made, but only to such of the 

 bird species of the present list as had been met with by us 

 in that northern region of the Donainion. 



It may also be mentioned that this paper would have 

 seen the light months ago but for the continued delay in 

 the completion of Bendire's great history, as weU as in the 

 publication of the highly interesting report of the valuable 

 work accomplished by Mr. Edward A. Preble (and his bro- 

 ther), of the United States National Museum, of late years, 

 in a large section of the far-north region, embraced in both 

 papers. I had hoped to profit by way of corroboration of my 

 own by his very accurate determinations. 



Since the publication in 1891 of the frequently referred- 

 to paper on the Anderson collections of 1861-1866, the 

 canons of nomenclature adopted by the American Ornitho- 

 logical Union, therein followed, have been amended, while 

 their latest (1906) revised and abridged Check List is again 

 adhered to in the present classification. 



WATER BIRDS. 



1. WESTEEiir Geebe — ^chomophorus occidentalis 

 (Lawrence). 



On May 6, 1889, a male example was caught in a fishing 

 net, along with two other grebes, at Fort St. James, Stuart's 

 Lake, the " headquarters " of the Hudson's Bay Company's 

 District of New Caledonia, British Columbia. The native 

 " Carrier " Indians by similar means annually capture 

 many ducks and other water birds. This species is rare, 

 and it is not supposed by them to breed in this quarter. The 

 measurements of this particular specimen, before skinning, 

 were respectively 26-7-45 and 2.7-8 inches. Mr. Brooks 

 states that it is tolerably common in the Eraser valley below 



