. The Canadian field-naturalist. . The Canadian Field-Naturalist Vol. 62 OTTAWA, CANADA, JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1948 No. 1 NOTES ON THE COUNTRY, BIRDS AND MAMMALS WEST OF HUDSON BAY BETWEEN REINDEER AND BAKER LAKES.' By T. H. Manning Ottawa, Ont. INTRODUCTION IN THE SUMMER of 1945, my wife and I formed one of the four parties from the Geodetic Service of Canada which were establishing astronomical control positions for aerial survey in the region west of Hudson Bay. We worked through a strip of country from a point a little east of Reindeer Lake to just north of Chesterfield Inlet. The other partie
. The Canadian field-naturalist. . The Canadian Field-Naturalist Vol. 62 OTTAWA, CANADA, JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1948 No. 1 NOTES ON THE COUNTRY, BIRDS AND MAMMALS WEST OF HUDSON BAY BETWEEN REINDEER AND BAKER LAKES.' By T. H. Manning Ottawa, Ont. INTRODUCTION IN THE SUMMER of 1945, my wife and I formed one of the four parties from the Geodetic Service of Canada which were establishing astronomical control positions for aerial survey in the region west of Hudson Bay. We worked through a strip of country from a point a little east of Reindeer Lake to just north of Chesterfield Inlet. The other parties were to the west of us. All our move- ments (between stations were by a Norseman aircraft piloted by F/L W. K. Carr, We returned from Baker Lake to The Pas in a Canso aircraft, making a short stop at a temporary base on the Kazan River. When held up by bad weather or the late break-up of ice on the lakes ahead, there was opportunity to make collections of, and obser- vations on the birds and mammals. These collections have been purchased by the Royal Ontario Museum and the National Museum respectively. In 1930, Porsild (1936) made an investiga- tion of the reindeer grazing conditions in the Keewatin district. He has kindly allowed me to examine and use his manuscript notes on the btrds he saw about the upper Tha-anne River which he visited by plane (July 11-12), and in the Yathkyed Lake and lower Kazan River areas. These notes were also used by Clarke (1938), and I have included only the extracts which were not published in Clarke's more general account, to which the reader is also referred for a bibliography and a summary of the birds and mammals of the surrounding regions. A small collection of birds and mammals was made in the Yathkyed Lake area by Peter Freuchen and Helge Bangsted (Degerbol and Freuchen 1935, and Horring 1937). Sutton (1931) gives a few notes on the birds between Eskimo Point and Churchill on his journey down the coast between August 19 an
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