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color to the claimed connection between these two sj'Stems. The connection between 
the Missouri and the Columbia has scarcely affected the distribution of fishes. 
The region from Winnipeg to Calgary is very much like any section in the United 
States from the Mississippi to the Rockies. The slope for the most part is impercep- 
tible and the country is level or slightly rolling. A large part is prairie, the rest is 
covered with low shrubs. The rivers have usually worn a narrow valley below the 
general surface, and their banks are nearly always quite abrupt and very muddy. 
From Calgary the ascent is rapid and the streams become mountain torrents. 
On the Pacific slope the streams are all swift, and from Field to the Columbia the 
descent is very rapid. The Columbia is navigable from Golden up, but below Golden 
there are many rapids. This river makes a long horseshoe bend towards the north, 
and when the railway strikes it again at Revelstoke the river is 1,000 feet lower and 
again navigable. 
I received much valuable information and many courtesies from Mr. McQueen, 
inspector of fisheries for Manitoba; from Mr. W. Hill, of W’innipeg; Mr. Amedee E. 
Forget, of the Canadian Indian department; Capt. Harper, of the Canadian mounted 
liolice, and Mr. G. A. Stewart, superintendent of the Eockj' Mountains Park of Canada. 
Finally, I must acknowledge my indebtedness to Dr. Albert Gunther, of the British 
Museum, at whose suggestion and expense the explorations were undertaken. 
STATIONS WHERE COLLECTIONS WERE MADE. 
In the following list I give the names of the places visited by me in their regular 
succession, the name of the river examined, the sj^stem to which it belongs, and, as far 
as I have been able to determine, the elevation of each locality. All the elevations of 
Canadian points have been taken from the levels of the Canadian Pacific Railroad. 
Plate 5 illustrates the relation of these stations to each other. 
station. 
Ciuiada, Atlantic slope: 
Winnipeg . - 
Westbonl'iie 
Bramlon 
Qu’Appelle 
Regina 
iloosejaw 
Chaplin 
S'STift Current 
Maple Creek 
Medicine Hat 
Calgar\- 
Bantf 
Canada, Pacific slope; 
Field 
Golden 
Revelstoke 
G-riflinLake 
Sicamous 
Kamloops 
Mission 
United States; 
Umatilla ... 
La Grande.. 
Caldwell 
Idaho Falls. 
Craig 
Poplar 
Elevation. 
Stream. 
River system. 
700 
Red River of the North 
*750 
White Mud 
Manitoba Lake. 
1,150 
As.siuiboine 
Red River. 
*1, 700 
Qu’Appelle 
Ho. 
1, S75 
Eacawana Creek 
Do. 
1.725 
Moose Jaw 
Do. 
2, 400 
Swift Current 
Saskatchewan. 
(?) 5, 800 
Maple Creek 
Do. 
2, 150 
Saskatchewan 
Do. 
3,388 
Bow and Elbow 
Do. 
4,500 
Bow and Vermillion 
Do. 
4, 050 
Kiclvin^' Horse 
Colnnibia. 
2, 550 
Kicking Hor.se and Columbia 
Do. 
1, 475 
Columbia 
Do. 
1,900 
Gritiin Lake 
F raser. 
1, 300 
Shushwap Lake 
Thompson Liver 
Do. 
1, 158 
Do. 
1 
Fraser 
Do. 
300 
Umatilla Creek and Columbia 
2,786 
Grand Ronde 
Columbia. 
2, 372 
Boise 
Do. 
4,712 
Snake River 
Do. 
t3.438 
Missouri 
Missouri. 
f 1, 960 
Poplar Liver 
Do. 
* About. 
tElevations furnished b 3 ' Great Northern Railroad through its general manager, Mr. D. L. Mohler. 
