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Based on subject.
3 pamphlets about the mammals [1] of the Alta Lake Region of South-western British Columbia and birds [2] of the Alta Lake region, British Columbia.
Arranged according to original order.
Fair-Good (June 2016)
Revised January 2017.
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A booklet entitled "Mammals of the Alta Lake Region of South-western British Columbia" by Kenneth Racey and Ian McTaggart Cowan. The booklet is noted to be "reprinted without change of paging from the report of the Provincial Museum, 1935". Contains a description of the Alta Lake region including weather patterns, vegetation and the surrounding mountains. Provides descriptions of 1-2 paragraphs for each of the 42 mammals present in the Alta Lake region. Also includes five plates of black and white photographs of the landscape in the area.
Pictures are titled as following:
-"Looking south from Mount Overlord, Black Tusk at right, Mount Corrie and Cheakamus Glacier in centre."
-"Looking north from shoulder of Mount Overlord, peak of Overlord and Fitzsimmons Glacier at right, Mount Trorey at left - Hudsonian and Arctic Zones.
-"Nita Lake, altitude 2,100 feet - Canadian Zone coniferous forest".
-"Timber-line in Avalanche (Singing) Pass, looking north; Blackcomb Peak in background across Fitzsimmons Valley."
-"Cheakamus Lake and Glacier."
-"Cheakamus Canyon - Canadian Zone forest, western cedar and western hemlock predominating."
-"Devil's-club in Sitka spruce bottom-land - Canadian Zone."
-"Alta Creek and brushy meadow-land at north end of Alta Lake - brush is willow and red alder."
-"Alta Lake from the west, Wedge Mountain at extreme right."
-"Winter nest of Phenacomys olympicus."
-"Alpine meadow habitat of Phenacomys, Synaptomys, and Microtus richardsoni."
Fair (June 2016)
Some discolouration and fading of the paper and small water stains.
All inquiries regarding use, reproduction and publication should be addressed to museum staff.
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A booklet entitled "Birds of the Alta Lake Region, British Columbia" by Kenneth Racey. A note states that this booklet was "reprinted from The Auk, Vol. 65, July, 1948". The booklet lists all the birds found in the Alta Lake region in 1948. Each bird is given an English and Latin name and a short description, as well as locations they were seen in the area. Both copies of the booklet have select, but identical, annotations in certain parts correcting information that was wrongly printed.
Good (June 2016)
All inquiries regarding use, reproduction and publication should be addressed to museum staff.