. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1996 Cranmer-Byng: A Life with Birds 87. C. M, Sternberg's tiekl camp. Red Deer Rner, Alberla, 1917. Siaiidiag: Dr. R. L. Rutherford (University of Alberta), P. A. Taverner, C. M. Sternberg, C. H. Young, C. H. Sternberg, Dr. J. A. Allen (University of Alberta), three unidentified assistants are seated in foreground. (Reproduced courtesy of the Canadian Museum of Nature, number 40000.) Saskatchewan for an expedition in 1919, as well as to collect in the prairies. But he was forced to change his plans. In a letter to Fleming he explained what had happened: "
. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1996 Cranmer-Byng: A Life with Birds 87. C. M, Sternberg's tiekl camp. Red Deer Rner, Alberla, 1917. Siaiidiag: Dr. R. L. Rutherford (University of Alberta), P. A. Taverner, C. M. Sternberg, C. H. Young, C. H. Sternberg, Dr. J. A. Allen (University of Alberta), three unidentified assistants are seated in foreground. (Reproduced courtesy of the Canadian Museum of Nature, number 40000.) Saskatchewan for an expedition in 1919, as well as to collect in the prairies. But he was forced to change his plans. In a letter to Fleming he explained what had happened: "Parliament was so late in passing supply bills, you know that they never bring up an appropriation bill until the last thing when everybody is too anxious to get home to discuss them, that the western trip was not worth while. Instead of that I planned a short trip along the Rideau Canal to Kingston to get better acquainted with local conditions and ;^6 In a rowboat with an outboard engine with a canoe in tow, and accompanied by a man from the taxi- dermy shop, he set off on 11 June. On the day they left the weather turned cold and continued with rain and wind all the time, only clearing just as they returned to Ottawa on 15 July. Since then, he told Fleming, the weather had been roasting. They must have looked an odd sight, huddled up in waterproofs sitting low in the water in a rowboat, trying to find birds in the rain in the middle of the summer on the Rideau Canal, river and lakes connecting it. The result was minimal — just over 100 species record- ed, the best bird seen a Least Bittern, and the obser- vation that the marshes of Smith Falls were particu- larly good for hunting. As though this experience was not enough Percy spent two weeks with Clyde Patch with similar equipment exploring the Ottawa river as far as its mouth, this time in better weather but with disappointing results. Writing to Brooks he put the best face he could on the expeditions.
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