Explorations in the Far North
&«Htt£ PPM A '•, . ':« J? KJR! T Birds EXPLORATIONS I N THE FAR NORTH B Y FRANK RUSSELL BEING THE REPORT OF AN EXPEDITION UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA DURING THE YEARS 1892, '93, AND '94 e^H PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY/f ^THSONI^V MAY 1 5 1987 COPYRIGHT, 1898, By Wm. J. Haddock, .Secretary of the Board of Regents of the State University of Iowa, for the STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA. PREFACE EARLY in 1891, Professor Arthur G. Smith and the writer planned to undertake a journey, during the summer months, to the northern shores of Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, for the purpose of collecting ornithological specimens. Just before our departure in June, we were joined by Professor C. C. Nutting, who, eminently fitted by his experience as a naturalist, became the leader of the expedition, which was thereafter conducted in the interests of the Museum of the State University of Iowa. During the summer two stations were occupied; the first, near Lake Winnipeg, at the Grand Rapids of the Saskatchewan River; the second, sixty miles above, where the River debouches into Cedar Lake. The results of our explorations have been embodied in a report by Professor Nutting. 1 While at the mouth of the Saskatchewan I met Mr. R. Mac- Farlane, the ornithologist, who, during a residence in the Fur Country of nearly half a century, had made extensive and very valuable collections of natural history specimens. His enthusiastic descriptions of the field, as yet almost unex- plored, roused in me a strong desire to visit the Far North.
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