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RAY D HA — 6 M u cellaneour Pu lication N o . 12 . 1 94 8 b , pp , Puélirbed October 26, 1956 Means for publi cation were supplied bv the N ationa l Science Fo undati on ‘ “ l bowl-U N C O N T E N T S IN TROD UC’HO N Physiography and v egetati on Compa r ative abundance o f species Summ ati on o f distributi on al reco rds Class ification and nom encl atu r e M easu rements Acknowledgments ACCO U N TS O F S P ECIES Additi ona l K eew ati n mamm al s A S STEM T ST O F M M M N E TO P R S TES ITH Y A IC LI A ALIA C A A I , W OST RE ORDS FROM S O UT ESTERN K EEWA’I‘IN H C , HW LITERA TURE CITED IN D EX w v rnment Reproduct io n in h o l e o r in part is permitte d for any purp ose of the United Sta tes Go e . INTRODUCTI ON Until recent years we have h ad little knowledge of the detailed dis tribution a a n s etw of m mmalian life in the v st , lonely la d lying b een the u s Ba lower Thelon River and Chesterfield Inlet on the north , H d on y on the ak u and a S e an d east, Reindeer L e on the so th , Athabaska , Gre t lav , a l h . a t e Artillery l kes on the west In fact , that condition stil prev ils over u u . n tu greater part of the territory j st o tlined In the prese t cen ry , how our n a a a a ever , significant additions to k owledge of m mm ls h ve been m de u : 1 02 1 08 abo t the periphery of this territory for example , by Preble ( 9 ; 9 ) on the western Shore of H udson Bay and in the Athabaska-M ackenzie region ; by Preble and Seton ( 1 91 1 ) in the Fort Reliance and Artillery Lake area and northward ; by B uch ana n ( 1 920 ) abo ut Reindeer Lake ; and 1 4 u M by Clarke ( 9 0 ) in the Thelon Game Sanct ary . Finally anning ( 1 948 ) pushed into the hinterland of H udson Bay by pl ane and briefly investigated a considerable number of localities betwee n Reindeer Lake k and Baker La e . A long - standing ambition of my own to investigate the fauna and flora of the N ueltin Lake region in so uthwestern Keewatin became at tainable in 1947 through support of the Arctic Institute of North America u ( nder contractual arrangements with the Office of N aval Research ) . I reached N ueltin Lake by pl ane from Churchill on M ay 31 and t e tu M rned to the latter point on December 4 . ost of the intervening six months was spent in intensive studies within two miles of the mouth of Windy River at the northwestern extremity of the l ake (map Brief ’ Ba 1 . cu o a a : . ex rsions to k me little f rther afield to Josie s y (pl , fig ’ u u u ul 10 20 S a and abo t fo r miles to the so theast , J y to ; and to imons L ke - - 10 1 2 u O 1 3 22 . vicinity , miles to the west so thwest , ctober to In addition , on J uly 31 there was a nonstop plane flight from Windy River to the u u pper Kazan River region and return . I have incl ded in the present report a few notes Obtained along the H udson Bay Railway between The u M a 20 2 1 u M a 2 1 31 .