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Title: Bird-nesting in north-west Canada
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Raine, Walter, 1861-1934
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Toronto : Printed by Hunter, Rose and Company
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ear streams come down to the plain at frequent intervals,and there is timber in plenty throughout the foothills. Thesoil is rich and deep, game is very abundant, and the climatematchless. Leaving Calgary and going westward again, fol-lowing up the valley of the Bow, the gradually increasingriver terraces and the rounded, grassy foothills, on whichinnumerable horses, cattle and sheep are feeding, shut out themountains for an hour or two. Morley station, a few milesfrom the entrance to the Rockies, is a good centre for thesportsman to start from. Here the needful outfit of provis-ions, etc., can be secured, also a few Stoney Indians as guides,trackers and helpers, and they will show the way to thehaunts of mountain sheep, goat, bear, etc. Naturally the con-struction of the railway drove the game back a short distancefrom the track, but the Indians know where the differentspecies are to be found, and they are thoroughly good hunters,and perfectly reliable guides. Temporary accon\modation
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In North-West Canada. 97 will be found at Morley. Of winged game, the dusky orRichardsons grouse, is plentiful in the wooded foothills aboveMorley, they are found especially numerous northward amongthe high bluffs, which are covered with dense pine trees.They are also found in Northern Montana. A set of nineeggs in my collection, collected north of Morley, June 4th,1890, were taken from a nest made on the ground, near afallen tree ; the nest consisted of a hollow in the ground,lined with leaves, and the eggs are rich, creamy buff, finelyspotted all over with reddish brown, and average 1.85x1.30.The white-tailed ptarmigan also inhabits this section of theRocky Mountains. They are found above the timber line,among the craggs of the highest peaks ; the nest is merely adepression in the ground, lined with grass, and the eggs arelight buff brown, thickly spotted with chocolate brown, size1.68x1.15, The eggs of this bird are difficult to obtain, andare exceedingly rare in collections. The w

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