North American Fauna, Utgave 27Fish and Wildlife Service, 1908 - 574 sider |
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25 miles abundant Alberta Anderson River animals Arctic coast ascending Athabaska Landing Athabaska River August autumn Baird banks Barren Grounds Bear Lake Big Island breeding brother and Cary Canadian Birds Chipewyan collected descending the Mackenzie Edmonton Fauna Boreali-Americana female flock Fort Anderson Fort Chipewyan Fort Franklin Fort Good Hope Fort McMurray Fort Providence Fort Resolution Fort Simpson Fort Smith found it common Grand Rapid Henry House Hist Hudson's Bay Jasper House journey July June June 19 Leith Point Lesser Slave Lake Mackenzie River Mackenzie River region Macoun male McMurray McPherson Merritt Cary Nahanni River National Museum nearly nest Norman northern noted the species October Peace River Peel River Portage Proc records specimens Resolution return trip Richardson Ross recorded seen September shore Simpson skins Slave River Smith Landing specimen taken Spreadborough spring of 1904 summer took U. S. Nat Valley Voyage Willow winter wooded
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Side 10 - Asia is bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the Pacific Ocean, on the south by the Indian Ocean, and on the west by Europe, the Mediterranean and Red Sea.
Side 538 - Voyage in Baffin's Bay and Barrow's Straits, in the Years 1850 and 1851, performed by HM Ships Lady Franklin and Sophia, under the command of Mr. William Penny, in search of the missing Crews of HM Ships Ereb-us and Terror, With Charts and Illustrations.
Side 139 - ... scarcely drinkable. Whole forests of timber are drifted down the stream and choke up the channels between the islands at its mouth. We observed the traces of herds of buffaloes where they had crossed the river, the trees being trodden down and strewed as if by a whirlwind. At four PM we left the main branch of the Athabasca, entering a small river called the Embarras. It is narrow and muddy with pines of an enormous size on its banks. Some of them are two hundred feet high and three or four feet...
Side 37 - Bay, are rather low. Its southern and western shores are well wooded, while its northern and eastern borders are more thinly forested. The immediate shores are mainly of sand or gravel and are usually devoid of trees, but are well clothed with willows and various ericaceous shrubs and herbaceous plants. In most places along the south shore this treeless stretch is only a few hundred yards in width, and in the bays the forest extends to the water's edge.
Side 40 - Thence it extends northwesterly, crossing Nueltin, or Island Lake; Ennadai Lake on Kazan River; and Boyd Lake on the Dubawnt. Just north of 60° on Artillery Lake is the next point where we have a definite dividing line. Between the Dubawnt and Artillery Lake is the valley of the upper Thelon, or Ark-i-linik, along whose banks the forest extends in a narrow line far into the general treeless area. This northward extending tongue of forest will be more fully described beyond. From Artillery Lake the...
Side 36 - River below Fort MacKay, May 29, 1903. THE BASIN OF GREAT BEAR LAKE. A short account of Great Bear Lake may begin with a portion of the description by Richardson, who examined most of its shore line in 1825 and 1826. He says : Great Bear Lake is an extensive sheet of water, of a very irregular shape, being formed by the union of five arms or bays in a common center. The greatest diameter of the lake, measuring about one hundred and fifty geographical miles, runs from the bottom of Dease Bay, which...
Side 135 - La Foule, mass up on the edge of the woods, and start for food and shelter afforded by the stronger growth of pines farther southward. A month afterwards the males and females separate, the latter beginning to work their way north again as early as the end of February; they reach the edge of the...
Side 68 - Great Slave lakes, were first explored by him and are still mainly known from his labors. In 1875 he published a treatise on the geography of the Athabaska-Mackenzie region. Between 1883 and 1893, after his return to France, he published five books, which contained the narratives of his many journeys. In addition he wrote many shorter articles on geography and anthropology. His books of travel, in particular, contain a great many notes on the fauna of the regions traversed. In 1875 Dr. ARC Selwyn,...
Side 37 - M'Vicar Bay, the fifth arm of the lake, is narrower than the others, and being a little curved at its mouth, appears less connected with the main body of water. The light bluish-coloured water of Great Bear Lake is every where transparent, and is particularly clear near some primitive mountains, which exist in M'Tavish Bay.
Side 31 - On the following day the drifting ice had greatly increased in quantity, and on October 17 our progress by canoe was arrested. At this time the last of the tree sparrows and a few other hardy species left for the South.