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SW Keewatin; NW extremity of Nueltin Lake; mouth of Windy River #1387, 1388, 1389, 1390, June 30, 1947

 File — Box: 45, Folder: 11

Dates

  • Creation: June 30, 1947

General

1387: Savannah Sparrow's nest with 5 eggs, in a tussock of sphagnum, dwarf birch, and Andromeda, in a sedge bog. Nest lined with fine grasses; cup 58 mm wide, 36 mm. deep. 1388: A tundra pond ('Eider pond'), looking S to the Windy Hills. Black spruce, tamarack, Cladonia. 1389: A stone enclosure ('Pile o' Rocks') as a game lookout, on the summit of a Rocky Hill, looking NW. Dwarf birch, Ledum palustris, Empetrum, grass, moss, Cladonia and other lichens. [Photo number crossed out and Fig. 27 added. Published in The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin as Fig 27, with the caption "Pile o’ Rocks, an ancient enclosure erected as a game lookout on the summit of a hill 1.5 miles NW. of the Mouth of Windy River."] 1390: An outpost clump of stunted black spruce on a rocky Hill ('Pile o' Rocks') in the barrens, looking SE. to Josie's Hill beyond Windy Bay. Apparently all the trees and shoots in this clump belonged originally to one connected system, developed from a tree...

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