546 NOKTH AMERICAN" FAUNA. [no. 27. 



1881. Gilder, William H. Scliwatka's Search. 8vo, pp. 316. New York. 



Au account of an overland journey, made in 1879-80, by Lieut. 

 Frederick Scliwatka, from Daly Bay, near Chesterfield Inlet, Hudson 

 Bay, to King William Land and return. Contains many notes on the 

 game animals of King William. Land and the lower part of Back 

 River. 



1881. Macoun, John. Manitoba and the Great North-West. 8vo, pp. 687. 

 Guelph, Ontario. 



Chapter XXI, pp. 854-373, " Birds of the North-W^est," enumerates 

 235 species. The notes refer mainly to the plains region of Manitoba, 

 Saskatchewan, and Alberta, but the occurrence of a few species on the 

 Athabaska is recorded. 



1883. Petitot, Emile. On the Athabasca District of the Canadian North-West 



Territory. <Proc. Roy. Geog. Soc. and Monthly Record of Geographj- 

 [1883], No. 11, pp. 633-655. November, 1883. 



A popular account of the Athabaska region. Many notes on the 

 fauna and flora are given. 



1884. Bell, Robeet. Report on part of the Basin of the Athabasca River, 



North-West Territory. <Rept. Prog. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey of 

 Canada, 1882-3-t, Part CC, pp. 1CC-37CC. (Part CC dated 1884, 

 volume dated 1885.) 



Geological and general description of La Biche River, of the Atha- 

 baska from the mouth of La Biche River to Athabaska Lake, and of 

 Clearwater River. 



1884. McCoEMicK, R. Voyages of Discovery in the Arctic and Antarctic Seas, 

 and round the World ; being personal narratives of attempts to reach 

 the North and South Poles; and of an open-boat expedition up the 

 Wellington Channel in search of Sir John Franklin and Her Majesty's 

 Ships Erehus and Terror, in Her Majesty's boat Forlorn Hope. Two 

 volumes : pp. 432 ; 412. London. 



The author spent the summer of 1852 at Beechey Island and north- 

 ward along the western coast of North Devon. A great many notes 

 on natural history are given. 



1884. RiDGWAY, Robeet. Note on the Anser Uyperhoreus , Pall., and Anser 



alJjatus, Cass. <Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., II, pp. 107, 108. April 28, 1884. 



The name liyperhoreus restricted to the form breeding from north- 

 ern Alaska eastward at least to mouth of Mackenzie River. 



1885. Ogilvie, William. Extract from the Report of Mr. Ogilvie on the Sur- 



vey of Block and Township Outlines in the winter and summer of 

 1883. <Ann. Rept. Dept. Interior (Canada) for the year 1884, (Ses- 

 sional Papers, No. 13,) Part II, pp. 36-45. 



A general report on work done mainly in the Lesser Slave Lake 

 region. A few notes on the fauna occur. 



1885. Ogilvie, William. Report by William Ogilvie [on the Athabaska and 

 Peace Rivers]. <Ann. Rept. Dept. Interior [Canada] for the year 

 1884 (Sessional Papers No. 13), Part II, pp. 46 to 56. 



Report, chiefly topographical, of an exploration of portions of 

 Athabaska and Peace rivers in 1884. Mr. Ogilvie descended the Atha- 

 baska. from Athabaska Landing, ascended the Peace to Dunvegan, and 

 returned to Athabaska Landing by way of Lesser Slave Lake. 



1885. Petitot, Emile. On the Athabasca District of the Canadian North- 

 West Territory. <Canadian Record of Science, Vol, 1, 1884-5, pp. 27- 

 53. (1885.) 



