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Considerable material was collected for both study and exhibition 
purposes, including 650 birds and 68 mammal study skins besides nests, 
eggs, and downy young to make about a dozen habitat bird groups, some 
of which are already completed and on exhibition. Many of these are 
quite unique. Coloured drawings that will be of great value to taxider- 
mists and artists as well as to ornithologists were made of the fading soft 
parts of birds. Many wild life photographs were taken and the motion 
pictures obtained were sufficient to fill out two reels of film that are avail- 
able for showing, under the titles of “A Naturalist in the Arctics,” Reel I, 
in Baffin bay, and Reel II, in Hudson bay. 
Thanks are due to the Hudson’s Bay Company and its officers and to 
the Department of Railways and Canals whose co-operation was of great 
assistance in the work. 
Clyde L. Patch, chief taxidermist and herpetologist, D. Blakely, 
taxidermist, Claude E. Johnson, artist, and Miss W. K. Bentley, museum 
assistant, collected material from the Ottawa district, to fill out the col- 
lections and to provide accessories for habitat group work. 
Museum Work 
Progress has been made in the work of preparing and installing biolo- 
gical exhibits in the Museum halls. A number of interesting habitat 
groups have been finished, these include: 
Mammals 
Arctic fox and young (Baffin island). 
Varying hare and young (Quebec). 
Red squirrel and young (Ontario). 
Birds 
Blue goose and young (Baffin island). 
Pacific eider (North West territories). 
Groups of birds, with nests, eggs, or young, from Churchill district, northern Mani- 
toba: Arctic loon; old-squaw; Arctic tern; red phalarope; white-rumped sand- 
piper; least sandpiper; red-backed sandpiper; semipalmated sandpiper; stilt 
sandpiper; Hudsonian curlew; semipalmated plover; willow ptarmigan; horned 
lark; Lapland longspur; Harris sparrow; and tree sparrow. 
The Churchill material, listed above, was collected by P. A. Taverner 
and his party. The specimens of downy young birds were mounted in the 
field. Sections of the sod containing nests were cut out, shipped to Ottawa, 
and there the groups were assembled by C. L. Patch. The casting and 
modelling of plants and other accessories for nine groups were done by 
C. E. Johnson, and for four groups by Miss Bentley. 
The following single specimens were mounted to fill gaps in the system- 
atic exhibition cases: northern white-tailed deer (doe); Ross gull; hooded 
merganser; baldpate, greater scaup; lesser scaup; buff-breasted sandpiper; 
greater yellowlegs; Sora rail; sharp-shinned hawk; pigeon hawk; raven; 
redstart; and brown thrasher. 
One dovekie was mounted for the National Parks Branch, and two 
species of lemmings were mounted for the North West Territories and 
Yukon Branch, Department of the Interior. 
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