122 June 9 - British Columbia 5:45 p.m. - At Sicamous. A w. before reaching here saw a comp. of Vaux Swifts high overhead; al a Spotted Sandpiper on the river and a Western Robin percht high o a dead tree. The heavily timbered mountains about her rise dire out of the lakes. Forest fires here apparently downed what the lumber men have left, but a thick new growth covers the slopes everywhere. 6:45 p.m. - At Salmon Arm, around farms saw: 5 Western Crows; 1 Sparrowhawk; 1 Northwestern Flye There is no sign, along this east-and-west route, of an arid plateau interior between Cascade and Rocky mts. & other works the Great Basin fauna pinches off somewhere.