Field notes: Eastern United States return trip through Canada and Northwest United States, San Diego trip,1916, and second Eastern United States trip "via northwest", v4546
Page 61
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
(now Mt. Douglas) night past where the type of Agelaius, ph. courinus was taken, once marshy, now dry, tho there are willows along a water course. Then back to the Provincial Museum, where I saw the types of Ovis famini (mounted), a saddle-marked intergrade between the Dull Sheep and the Rocky Mountain Sheep, and Rangifer dawsoni, from Queen Charlotte Islands (Kermod says he believes this caribou to be now extinct). The mounted male is small, and whitish in color; this is not the type, however, which latter is one antler attached to a part-cranium. 2 to 6:45 p.m. — Crossed from Victoria to Vancouver, B.C. Smooth, but dull and scenery, except close by. Obscured. Many Murres (immature) along the passage- way among the islands. Gulls included Glaucous-winged, Ring-billed, and a small species seemingly size of latter, but with more amount I black at tip and along front border I spread wing. White-winged Scoters abundant.