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Excerpt from Results of a Biological Reconnoissance of the Yukon River Region: General Account of the Region; Annotated List of Mammals; Annotated List of Birds The country traversed may be divided for convenience into five dis tricts: (1) The Lynn Canal district, (2) the White Pass district, the Canadian Yukon district, (4) the Hudsonian Yukon district, and (5) the Alaska Tundra district. These districts are limited in a general way by their respective life zones, but they are not of equal extent or importance, and the names applied to them are used 'not to specially designate restricted parts Of zones already recognized, but purely as a matter of convenience. They are longitudinal districts that is, they are very much longer than wide, and each is merely a nar row tract covered by our route through some larger faunal region. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.