Greetings Tweets -

While fetching something else from a 1908 issue of The Auk, I noticed a
paper by the early Northwest ornithologist, William Leon Dawson, titled
"The Bird Colonies of the Olympiades" and downloaded it also.

Three of the island groups off the Olympic coast had just recently been
declared wildlife reservations by Pres. Theodore Roosevelt, and...

"In July, 1905, the writer, accompanied by wife and child, effected a
reconnaissance of these islands, using for the purpose the staunch
cedar canoe of the Northwest, manned by two Indian boatmen. We launched
at Point Grenville on July 7 and arrived at Neah Bay on the 25th of
that month."

The paper makes for good reading, and provides a window into a world
long gone by. You can find it at S.O.R.A., the Searchable
Ornithological Archive at http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/index.php and
selecting The Auk, Volume 25 (1908), Number 2, and finally Dawson's
paper (pg 153 - 166).

Dawson describes each island visited and the numbers of each species
identified.

Enjoy,

Doug Canning



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Douglas Canning
Black Lake, Thurston Co., Wash.
dcanning at zhonka.net
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