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2001 NorTH CLARK STREET, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 
Number 88 June, 1941 
An Expedition into Northern Canada 
By JOHN R. CRUTTENDEN 
LAST JUNE I had the opportunity to make a trip to Churchill, Manitoba, a 
territory which has been rather recently opened, and which is the breeding 
ground of some of our rarer birds that most of us know only during migra- 
tion. We traveled the 2000 miles northward in order to study certain of 
these rare birds and collect and photograph their nests and eggs. 
Since I am an oologist and the trip there was made for the purpose of 
doing scientific collecting of eggs, I feel it advisable to go into this subject 
a little before telling you further of our trip and some of the interesting 
species we had a chance to study. With many of you there no doubt exists 
Hudsonian curlew at nesting site 
a prejudice against the egg collector. Probably some of you may feel that 
it has an adverse effect upon the bird population. This can hardly be correct 
since most of our species will lay a second set of eggs almost immediately 
if the first is taken or disturbed. Then, too, most of you are aware of the 
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