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collect birds. T am under obligations to the Bureau of Biological
Survey of the United States Department of Agriculture, through its
chief, Dr. E. W. Nelson, for the loan of specimens and for the identi-
fication of certain mammals. To the Victoria Memorial Museum,
Ottawa, through Mr. P. A. Taverner, ornithological curator, and to the
Provincial Museum, Victoria, British Columbia, through the director,
Mr. F. Kermode, I am indebted for the loan of many specimens.

To Major Allan Brooks, of Okanagan Landing, British Columbia,
I am under obligations for the loan of specimens, and for critical
comments and advice bearing upon my treatment of various species
of birds and mammals. Major Brooks also made the drawing of the
tail of the rock ptarmigan that is shown herewith.

Plant names used in this report were kindly supplied by Professor
W. L. Jepson, of the University of California, based upon specimens
collected.

In treating the birds the nomenclature used is that of the American
Ornithologists’ Union Check-List (1910) and its supplements (1912,
1920), with such modifications as T employed in my ‘‘Birds and
Mammals of the Stikine Region’’ (1922, p. 127).

ITINERARY AND DESCRIPTIONS OF LOCALITIES

We reached Hazelton the evening of May 25. On June 20 we
removed to Kispiox Valley, twenty-three miles north of Hazelton. On
July 15 return was made to Hazelton, and several days devoted to
packing specimens and preparing for a mountain trip. On July 21 we
ascended Nine-mile Mountain. On August 14 we returned to Hazelton,
and on August 16 to Kispiox Valley. Final return to Hazelton was
made on September 17; on September 19 Strong took the train for
home, and on September 26 the writer took his departure.

HAZELTON

The town of Hazelton is at the Junction of the Skeena and Bulkley
rivers. The railroad station (Grand Trunk Pacific R. R.). some two
miles to the southeast, is 177 miles from the coast, at Prince Rupert,
and 973 feet above the sea. The town is in the low bottom lands
through which the rivers flow. On either side of these bottom lands
steep bluffs rise, two hundred feet or more, above which the higher