"08700c09-3a0e-48a6-ab56-e5091d75b97e"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "REPORT OF THE PROVINCIAL MUSEUM, 1961"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1198198"@en . "Sessional Papers of the Province of British Columbia"@en . "British Columbia. Legislative Assembly"@en . "2018-01-22"@en . "[1962]"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcsessional/items/1.0363244/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA\nDEPARTMENT OF RECREATION AND CONSERVATION\nPROVINCIAL MUSEUM\nof NATURAL HISTORY\nand ANTHROPOLOGY\nREPORT FOR THE YEAR 1961\nPrinted by A. Sutton, Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty\nin right of the Province of British Columbia.\n1962\n To Major-General the Honourable George Randolph Pearkes,\nV.C., P.C., C.B., D.S.O., M.C.,\nLieutenant-Governor of the Province of British Columbia.\nMay it please Your Honour:\nThe undersigned respectfully submits herewith the Annual Report of the Provincial Museum of Natural History and Anthropology for the year 1961.\nE. C. WESTWOOD,\nMinister of Recreation and Conservation.\nOffice of the Minister of Recreation and Conservation,\nJanuary, 1962.\n Provincial Museum of Natural History and Anthropology,\nVictoria, B.C., January 16, 1962.\nThe Honourable E. C. Westwood,\nMinister of Recreation and Conservation, Victoria, B.C.\nSir,\u00E2\u0080\u0094The undersigned respectfully submits herewith a report covering the\nactivities of the Provincial Museum of Natural History and Anthropology for the\ncalendar year 1961.\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour obedient servant,\nG. CLIFFORD CARL,\nDirector.\n DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION AND CONSERVATION\nThe Honourable Earle C. Westwood, Minister.\nD. B. Turner, Ph.D., Deputy Minister.\nPROVINCIAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY\nAND ANTHROPOLOGY\nStaff\nG. Clifford Carl, Ph.D., Director.\nCharles J. Guiguet, M. A., Curator of Birds and Mammals.\nWilson Duff, M.A., Curator of Anthropology.\nAdam F. Szczawinski, Ph.D., Curator of Botany.\nDonald N. Abbott, B.A., Assistant in Anthropology.\nFrank L. Beebe, Illustrator and Museum Technician.\nMargaret Crummy, B.A., Clerk-Stenographer.\nBetty C. Newton, Assistant in Museum Technique.\nSheila Y. Newnham, Assistant in Museum Technique.\nClaude G. Briggs, Attendant.\nC. E. Hope, Relief Attendant.\nTotem-pole Restoration Programme\nMungo Martin, Chief Carver.\nHenry Hunt, Assistant Carver.\n PROVINCIAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY\nAND ANTHROPOLOGY\nObjects\n(a) To secure and preserve specimens illustrating the natural history of the\nProvince.\n(b) To collect anthropological material relating to the aboriginal races of the\nProvince.\n(c) To obtain information respecting the natural sciences, relating particularly to the natural history of the Province, and to increase and diffuse knowledge\nregarding the same.\n(Section 4, Provincial Museum Act, chapter 311, R.S.B.C. 1960.)\nAdmission\nThe Provincial Museum is open to the public, free, on week-days, 9 a.m. to\n5 p.m., and on Sunday afternoons, 1 to 5 p.m.\n CONTENTS\nPage\nReport of the Director 9\nField Work 9\nPublications 9\nExtension Work 10\nThunderbird Park 10\nCuratorial Activities :.___ 11\nDisplay Materials 11\nBuilding Maintenance 1]\nLibrary Reorganization 11\nAttendance 11\nObituaries 12\nDonations and Accessions 13\nArticles\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n\" Records of Distribution of Some Crustacea in British Columbia,\" by\nJosephine F. L. Hart 17\n\" Nesting Colony of Mew Gulls on Kennedy Lake, Vancouver Island,\"\nby W. E. Ricker and Ferris Neave 20\n Argillite chest carved by Charles Edenshaw, of Masset, B.C.\n(Newcombe collection.)\nTsimshian portrait mask. (Newcombe collection.)\n REPORT OF THE PROVINCIAL MUSEUM\nFor the Year 1961\nREPORT OF THE DIRECTOR\nTwo major events affecting the Provincial Museum during 1961 were the\ntransfer in administration to the present Department and the acquisition of the Newcombe collection of Indian artifacts, pictures, and negatives. Both will have far-\nreaching effects.\nThe administrative move from the Department of Education to the Department\nof Recreation and Conservation brings the Provincial Museum into closer contact\nwith branches working in related fields, a move which will result in mutual advantage. At the same time, it will permit the Museum to carry on its scientific and\neducation function more effectively to the benefit of the people of the Province.\nThe Newcombe material, which was purchased by the Provincial Government\nfrom the estate of the late W. A. Newcombe, of Victoria, comprises extensive collections in the fields of anthropology, natural history, palaeontology, mineralogy, art,\nand local history. It is particularly rich in fine examples of Indian art, photographs,\nnegatives, field-notes, local and foreign shells, fossils, plant specimens, Emily Carr\nsketches and paintings, and reference books in the various fields. The acquisition\nof these valuable materials, which are being divided among the Museum, Archives,\nand Library, has provided an over-all \" lift \" and has added greatly to the research\nand display aspects in all divisions.\nFIELD WORK\nShort surveys and collecting trips were made in all divisions of the Museum\nfield. The study of small-mammal distribution, begun in 1948, was continued by\na collecting trip to the Tofino area, where a survey of five islands was carried out.\nThe continued co-operation of the Federal Department of Fisheries in providing\nsome transportation and other services is gratefully acknowledged.\nReconnaissance surveys of vegetation were carried out at Boat Basin and Kennedy Lake on the west coast of Vancouver Island, and at Dease Lake, Atlin Lake,\nand a number of other areas along the British Columbia-Yukon border, not previously studied.\nSeveral days were also spent near Tofino and at Friday Harbor, Washington,\ndoing marine collecting and photographic work.\nSeveral short surveys of archaeological sites were made locally and on two of\nthe Gulf Islands. In addition, Museum personnel participated in the activities\nof the Archaeological Sites Advisory Board by examining sites and conducting\nemergency excavations at site near Ladner which is being disturbed by house\nconstruction.\nPUBLICATIONS\nThe following publications have appeared in 1961:\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nBy Frank L. Beebe\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n\"Blood on the Snow.\" Victoria Naturalist, Vol. 17, Nos. 5, 6, and 7.\n W 10 BRITISH COLUMBIA\nBy G. Clifford Carl-\nReview of \" Organization of Museums \" Practical Advice No. IX.\nMuseums and Monuments Series, UNESCO, in UNESCO Publications\nReview, No. 10, p. 61.\n\" Sapsuckers Eating Ants.\" Victoria Naturalist, Vol. 17, No. 7, p. 94.\n\"Animals around Us.\" Series in Victoria Daily Times, July.\n\" Amphibian Migration.\" Victoria Naturalist, Vol. 18, No. 3, p. 36.\nBy R. H. Drent and C. J. Guiguet\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n\" A Catalogue of British Columbia Sea-bird Colonies.\"\nOccasional Papers, B.C. Provincial Museum, No. 12, pp. 1-173.\nBy Wilson Duff\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n\" Preserving British Columbia's Prehistory. A Guide for Amateur Archaeologists.\" Archaeological Sites Advisory Board, February, pp. 1-12.\n\" The Killer Whale Copper.\" Report of the Provincial Museum for 1960,\npp. 32-36.\n\" The Indians of the Gulf Islands.\" A Gulf Islands Patchwork. Gulf\nIslands Branch, B.C. Historical Association, pp. 1-5.\nBy C. J. Guiguet\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n\" Some Recent Sight Records of European Starling Nesting on New Territory in Western British Columbia.\" Report of the Provincial\nMuseum for 1960, pp. 29-31.\n\" The Harlequin Duck.\" Beautiful British Columbia, Vol. 2, No. 4.\n\" Shoveller.\" Beautiful British Columbia, Vol. 3, No. 1.\n\" Geese.\" Beautiful British Columbia, Vol. 3, No. 3.\n\" The Birds of British Columbia. (4) Upland Games Birds.\" British\nColumbia Provincial Museum Handbook No. 10, 2nd edition.\nBy Adam F. Szczawinski\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n\" The Heathers (Ericaceae) of British Columbia.\" British Columbia\nProvincial Museum Handbook No. 19. (In press.)\nA number of staff members have a number of other publications in various\nstages of preparation.\nEXTENSION WORK\nNumerous illustrated lectures were given in 1961 by various staff members\nboth locally and in other parts of the Province. In April the Director lectured in\nseveral of the Central States under the combined auspices of the Canadian Audubon\nSociety and the National Audubon Society.\nTwo special displays featuring the conservation work of the Department were\norganized and set up during the year\u00E2\u0080\u0094the first in the Sportsmen's Show in the\nspring, the second in the fall show of the Victoria Horticultural Society.\nThe services and facilities of the carving project in Thunderbird Park were\nplaced at the disposal of a photographic team from the University of California who\nare making education films featuring early Indian life and customs.\nTHUNDERBIRD PARK\nThe totem-pole carving programme in Thunderbird Park was continued through\nthe year, under the direction of the anthropological office. The main project completed by the carvers, Mungo Martin and Henry Hunt, was a pair of 15-foot posts\nto be incorporated into the entrance portal of Rebecca Spit Park. In addition, a\nnumber of minor projects were completed, and the carvers' activities continued to\nbe an outstanding attraction for visiting photographers and scholars.\n REPORT OF THE PROVINCIAL MUSEUM, 1961 W 11\nCURATORIAL ACTIVITIES\nThrough the services of a student assistant, a number of old and damaged bird\nand mammal study skins were repaired or remade and the entire collection was\nrestocked with insect repellent. The addition of three storage cases helped relieve\nthe crowding in the reference collection of bird-skins.\nIn the botanical section the newly acquired Newcombe plant collection was\nfumigated, cleaned, re-sorted, and largely remounted.\nTwo thousand eight hundred and seventy-two herbarium sheets were restored\nfrom the Newcombe collection and 1,120 herbarium specimens were acquired by\ncollecting and by exchange and added to the Provincial Herbarium, bringing our\ntotal up to 36,691.\nIn the anthropological section a great deal of time was spent in sorting, cleaning,\naccessioning, and storing material from the Newcombe Indian collection.\nDISPLAY MATERIALS\nThe major project in this field has been the planning and construction of a\nrelief model of British Columbia, measuring 7 by 8 feet, to show the physiographic\nfeatures and the main types of vegetative cover. It is to be installed in the Museum\nentrance hall as an \" orientation \" exhibit.\nSeveral enlarged models of protected flowers and other display items were\nproduced in plastic for use in permanent exhibits and in temporary public displays.\nBUILDING MAINTENANCE\nBefore the 1961 tourist season the entire Museum buildmg was cleaned and\nredecorated. We are greatly indebted to the Public Works Department for this\nservice.\nLIBRARY REORGANIZATION\nThe reorganization and recataloguing of the Museum reference library were\ncontinued by members of the Provincial Library staff. A number of periodicals\nhave yet to be catalogued.\nATTENDANCE\nThe number of visitors to the Museum according to the register is as follows:\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nJanuary 1,161 August 15,920\nFebruary 1,379 September 6,304\nMarch 1,973 October 1,815\nApril 3,366 November 800\nMay 3,399 December 640\nJune 7,968 \t\nJuly 14,328 Total 64,353\nThe number of registered visitors in 1961 was 13 per cent greater than in 1960.\nThis increase is similar to that enjoyed by other public institutions, and probably\nis largely due to increased travel during an exceptionally fine summer.\nWhen counts of school classes and other organized groups are included, the\ntotal 1961 attendance is estimated to be about 100,000 persons.\nThe July attendance figures have been broken down as follows:\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n W 12 BRITISH COLUMBIA\nResidence\nRegistration\nBritish Columbia\t\n2,770\nAlberta \t\n725\nSaskatchewan \t\n331\nManitoba \t\n160\nOntario \t\n675\nQuebec\t\n195\nNova Scotia\t\n30\nNew Brunswick \t\n26\nPrince Edward Island __\n10\nNewfoundland \t\n13\nYukon \t\n11\nNorthwest Territories __\n3\nTotal\t\n4,949\nResidence Registration\nWashington 2,212\nOregon 1,197\nCalifornia 1,931\nOther States 3,717\nGreat Britain 160\nOther countries 143\nTotal 14,328\nCompared with figures obtained in the previous year, the July attendance in\n1961 was down about 16 per cent, but still well above the average based on records\nfrom the past six years. On the other hand, the August attendance showed a 20-\nper-cent increase over the same period in 1960.\nOBITUARIES\nWith regret we record here the passing of several persons who have rendered\nservices to the Museum and to the Province as a whole.\nMr. Thomas Francis, a long-time resident of the Victoria area, donor of a\ntract of timbered land now known as \" The Thomas Francis Provincial Park \"\n(January 6th).\nMr. T. L. Thacker, naturalist and donor of the Little Mountain area, near\nHope, to the University of British Columbia for use in wildlife research (March 21st).\nMr. John Nutt, local botanist and part-time assistant on the Museum staff\n(February 5th).\nDr. H. T. Gussow, former Federal Plant Pathologist and authority on fungi\n(June 15th).\nMr. Lionel E. Taylor, botanist and collector, authority on the flora of South\nAfrica (October 27th).\nMrs. Lillian C. Sweeney, noted artist and bird carver, formerly technical assistant on the Museum staff (December 4th). During her years of service as artist\non the Museum staff, Mrs. Sweeney produced many life-like models of fishes, mushrooms, flowers, and prehistoric mammals, of which most are still on display. Her\nwax replicas of native fishes have never been excelled, despite the advent of plastics\nand more modern techniques, and her painted dioramas of Indian life will continue\nto be used in schools of the Province for years to come.\nMr. E. R. Buckell, well-known entomologist and naturalist of Salmon Arm\n(December 17th).\n REPORT OF THE PROVINCIAL MUSEUM, 1961 W 13\nDONATIONS AND ACCESSIONS\nBOTANICAL\nPlant collections were received from the following persons: T. R. Ashlee,\nVictoria; Mrs. D. Calverley, Dawson Creek; Mrs. C. J. Guiguet, Victoria; Dr.\nS. S. Holland, Victoria; A. McLaughlin, Victoria; J. E. Underhill, Victoria.\nHerbarium specimens were obtained by exchange from the following institutions: National Museum of Canada, Ottawa; Science Service, Department of\nAgriculture, Ottawa; Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C; University of British\nColumbia, Vancouver; University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; University\nof North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.\nZOOLOGICAL\nBy \u00E2\u0080\u009Ejft Mammals\nStephen Doherty, Victoria, one skull of blacktail deer.\nR. Dudman, Saanichton, one immature shrew.\nFish and Game Branch, Victoria, two opossums, one cougar.\nDavid Fowle, Toronto, thirteen white-footed mice.\nJ. Lenfesty, Victoria, two blacktail deer.\nW. H. Parker, Glen Lake, four bats.\nJ. Richardson, Victoria, one raccoon skull.\nR. Troup, Saanichton, one fallow deer (mounted head).\nVictoria City Police, one cougar.\nMrs. A. G. Waldron, Estevan Point, one elephant-seal skull.\nBy the staff, 103.\nBy gift\u00E2\u0080\u0094 BlRDS\nT. R. Ashlee, Victoria, bird specimens collected by the late Dr. William C.\nMcKechnie.\nW. Atkinson, Victoria, one short-eared owl.\nH. Bonsall, Westholme, one albino blackbird.\nC. D. Buckle, North Saanich, one dwarf hermit thrush.\nR. G. Bunyard, Sidney, one bushtit nest.\nA. Campbell, Victoria, one varied thrush.\nFish and Game Branch, one blue-winged teal, four whistling swans.\nMark Guiguet, Victoria, one Canada goose.\nC. Howatson, Saanich, one house finch nest and eggs.\nJ. P. E. Klaverwyden, Victoria, one cedar waxwing.\nMrs. Margaret Lawrence, Victoria, one rufous hummingbird.\nR. Mason, Duncan, one bushtit nest.\nK. Mollet, Sidney, two snowy owls.\nW. A. B. Paul, Kleena Kleene, one fox sparrow.\nMrs. D. Penton, Prospect Lake, one rufous hummingbird.\nA. L. Poldermon, Brentwood, one barn owl.\nA. Poynter, Victoria, one Pacific fulmar.\nMrs. O. F. Springer, Victoria, nest and egg of Oregon junco.\nE. Von Carlosfeld and E. Schnor, Jordan River, one saw-whet owl.\nJ. West, Victoria, one rufous hummingbird.\nMrs. W. E. Wilford, Victoria, nest and eggs of chipping sparrow.\nD. Wood, Victoria, one whistling swan, one fork-tailed petrel.\nBy the staff, sixteen.\n W 14 BRITISH COLUMBIA\n__ ... Amphibians and Reptiles\nBy gift\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nE. Anglin, Victoria, one painted turtle.\nConstable Boyer, Shawnigan Lake, one painted turtle.\nJ. Lindsay, Victoria, one alligator lizard.\nJ. Paxton, Victoria, one alligator lizard.\nW. F. Sewell, Victoria, one painted turtle.\nBy the staff, two garter snakes, one clouded salamander.\nr. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0&_ Fish\nBy gift\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nT. G. Hatcher, Victoria, one skate.\nR. E. Honour, Victoria, collection of fish from West Indies.\nH. W. Laird, Victoria, one coho salmon.\n\u00E2\u0080\u009E ... Invertebrates\nBy gift\u00E2\u0080\u0094-\nW. A. Burnham, Victoria, collection of black widow spiders.\nC. J. Butts, Victoria, one parasite from Alaska king crab.\nGeorge Buvyer, Victoria, one orb-weaver spider.\nMrs. I. M. Coughtry, Muchalat, one California silk moth.\nMiss Myrna Faust, Victoria, one wolf-spider.\nW. R. Fellows, Campbell River, one jumping spider.\nGregory Brant Hepburn, Victoria, one aeroplane moth.\nS. J. Kilvington, Victoria, one orb-weaver spider.\nMrs. S. McConnell, Victoria, collection of Indiana insects.\nM. McKinney, Victoria, one hawk-moth.\nArthur Morton, Cobble Hill, one gum-boot snail.\nMichael L. Pattison, Victoria, two barnacles on one clam.\nGeoff Partington, Metchosin, one spider.\nMiss Beverley Anne Smith, Victoria, one pecten shell.\nLyle Smith, Victoria, one hair worm.\nO. F. Springer, Victoria, one crab (Phyllolithodes papillosus Brandt).\nMiss M. Taylor, Victoria, one oak moth.\nMiss Pattie Whitehouse, Saanichton, one ichneumon fly.\n... Geology\nBy gift\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nBjorn Stavrum, Victoria, one fossil ammonite.\nA. Sumner, Victoria, one fossil shell and portion of fossil tree.\n__, .. Miscellaneous\nBy gift\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nA. C. Crawford, Pender Island, one decorative floral specimen.\nWilliam Jones, Victoria, two sets of photographs.\nEric Sismey, Penticton, one copy of \" Game Birds of California.\"\nANTHROPOLOGICAL\nThe W. A. Newcombe Collection.\u00E2\u0080\u0094(Purchase.) More than 1,500 important and\nwell-catalogued ethnological and archaeological specimens from all parts of\nthe Province collected by the late Mr. Newcombe and by his father, the late\nDr. C. F. Newcombe; also several thousand photographs of Indian subjects\ntaken by the Newcombes, Maynard, and other early Victoria photographers.\n REPORT OF THE PROVINCIAL MUSEUM, 1961 W 15\nThe B. A. McKelvie Collection.\u00E2\u0080\u0094(Purchase.) A varied collection of ethnological\nand archaeological specimens acquired by the late Mr. McKelvie.\nThe George S. McTavish Collection.\u00E2\u0080\u0094(Gift.) Forty-six specimens collected by\nMr. and Mrs. McTavish, mostly at Rivers Inlet. Donated by Mrs. McTavish's\nsister, Miss Evelyn M. Gurd.\nThe Mrs. Melba Menzies Collection.\u00E2\u0080\u0094(Gift.) Indian basketry and recent model\ntotem-poles. (Per Provincial Archives.)\nBy gift-\nMrs. Maria Abbott, Victoria, surface collections of artifacts.\nBrian Alexander, Victoria, stone bowl.\nDavid Alsdorf, Brian Schernoff, and Frank Hanson, Victoria, human skeletal\nmaterial and trade goods.\nFred S. Auger, Vancouver, chipped projectile point from Chilcotin area.\nJohn R. Beard, Vancouver, prehistoric basketry fragments.\nA. H. Burritt, Victoria, nine chipped projectile points and fragments.\nJ. M. Campbell. Saturna Island, human skull.\nMrs. H. Carmichael, Victoria, two Lillooet baskets.\nT. L. Clarke, Victoria, hand-maul fragment and sinker.\nLes Cook, Barkerville, chipped knife.\nL. Coton, Victoria, adze blade.\nRichard Cox, Victoria, human skull.\nMrs. Anne Dodds, North Vancouver, 500 clay shale beads.\nMr. and Mrs. T. P. Forrester, Sechelt, prehistoric sandstone carving.\nW. C. Gilmore, Chemainus, prehistoric pecked stone ornament.\nGary Green, Victoria, human skeleton.\nW. B. Harrison, Jr., Duncan, hand-maul.\nMrs. L. R. Jensen, Ladner, abrasive stone.\nR. S. Kidd, Seattle, surface collections of artifacts.\nMrs. Joe Marsh, Victoria, one adze, two leister spears, and one unfinished\nmask.\nMr. Martin, Lillooet, hand-maul.\nMrs. James A. Menzies, Vancouver, brass blanket pin.\nFrank Orton, Sidney, barbed bone point.\nMrs. J. Osborne, Victoria, one Coast Salish basket.\nMrs. Louise Paulsen, Winter Harbour, two human skulls.\nMrs. H. Peasland, Victoria, human skull.\nMrs. Arthur Peel, White Rock, hand-maul.\nMiss H. Purdy and Mrs. T. Rose, Ganges, prehistoric sandstone zoomorphic\nbowl.\nMrs. Catherine Rasmussen, Victoria, two bone points and five chipped projectile points.\nSydney Rodd, Maple Bay, abrasive stone.\nRoyal Canadian Mounted Police, Campbell River, human skull and fragments\nof matting.\nRoyal Canadian Mounted Police, Courtenay, one human skull.\nRoyal Canadian Mounted Police, Ganges, human skeleton.\nRoyal Canadian Mounted Police, Kamloops Rural Detachment, human\nskeleton.\nRoyal Canadian Mounted Police, Williams Lake, human skull.\n W 16 BRITISH COLUMBIA\nJohn Sendey, Victoria, microblades and polyhedral cores from sites in the\nVictoria area, and perishable objects from a rock shelter on Valdes\nIsland.\nEric D. Sismey, Penticton, old square spike from an Indian house.\nMrs. H. H. Skidmore, Victoria, five Interior Salish baskets.\nFrank P. Smith, Ladner, prehistoric stone bowl, two hand-mauls, and one\nstone axe.\nC. A. Trotter, Victoria, two stone adze blades.\nVictoria City Police, parts of human skeleton.\nMembers of Victoria and District Archaeology Club, surface collection of\nartifacts.\nMrs. Harry B. Vivian, Vancouver, human skull and femora.\nMrs. Arthur F. Wale, Langford, hand-maul.\nDr. C. A. Watson, Victoria, two large Kwakiutl zoomorphic feast dishes.\nIsaac Williams, Tsawwassen, antler wedge and another antler object fragment.\nKeith A. Wilson, Qualicum Bay, one Kwakiutl cedar-bark mat, one basket of\nLillooet style, and one basket of Athapaskan style.\nBy purchase\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nJohn Guerin, Victoria, two Coast Salish mountain goat wool blankets.\nBy the staff\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nArtifacts and associated materials from excavations at site DgRsl, Beach\nGrove.\nSurface collections of artifacts and skeletal remains from various sites.\nOne Kwakiutl killer whale mask carved by Henry Hunt in Thunderbird Park.\n REPORT OF THE PROVINCIAL MUSEUM, 1961 W 17\nRECORDS OF DISTRIBUTION OF SOME CRUSTACEA\nIN BRITISH COLUMBIA\nBy Josephine F. L. Hart, Volunteer Assistant, Provincial Museum,\nVictoria, B.C.\nFrom time to time unusual Crustacea are brought to the Museum for identification, or have been collected during Museum expeditions. Some of these appear to\nbe unrecorded in the literature, and thus are of importance as additions to the faunal\nlist of British Columbia, while others serve to add to our knowledge of the habitat\nand distribution within the Province.\n(Photo by George N. Y. Simpson.)\nCystisoma pellucidum (Willemoes-Suhm), a large pelagic amphipod.\nAMPHIPODS\nKnowledge of the amphipods occurring in British Columbia is very meagre,\nand as the majority of the species are small and need magnification to show the\nintricacies of their structure, they are often not noticed. However, examples of\nthree large species have been found recently which merit attention for several\n W 18 BRITISH COLUMBIA\nreasons: (1) they are considered deep-water forms and yet these were discovered\non the seashore; (2) they apparently have not been recorded previously from this\narea; (3) they are very large for amphipods and amazingly transparent; and (4)\nthey were still alive and thus permitted the taking of colour notes, perhaps for the\nfirst time.\nThe first to be noted is a specimen of Cystisoma pellucidum (Willemoes-Suhm),\n67 mm. in length, found by Richard Cox, of Victoria, on the beach adjacent to the\nOak Bay Golf Links on December 2, 1955. It fortunately lived for four days. As\nmay be seen by the illustration, it looks very different from the familiar sand flea or\nbeach hopper, yet they both belong to the same group.\nThe animal was very buoyant and seemed able to stay suspended in the water\nwhile exhibiting practically no movement. It was extraordinarily transparent; the\nonly readily visible structure was a bilobed organ above the mouth, which was\ncoral red. The relatively enormous eyes were practically unpigmented, being only\nfaintly orange ventrally, but the details of structure could be seen by magnification\nand careful observation. Narrow bands (1 mm. wide) which were definitely less\ntransparent than the rest of the animal could be seen near the tips of the appendages.\nA living specimen of a similar species, C. fabricii Stebbing, considerably smaller\n(45 mm.) than the first, was found on August 7, 1960, on the sand of Foul Bay,\nVictoria, by Pat and Maureen Vesey and Margaret White.\nThe third species has been known from European waters for many years, but\napparently has not been recorded previously from British Columbia. This is Phro-\nnima sedentaria (Forskal), another transparent oceanic amphipod not usually\nobserved along the seashore. This animal normally dwells in the empty, transparent, barrel-shaped test of a salp (a free-swimming tunicate), propelling itself\nand \" house \" by means of its pleopods and using the sides of the test as a brood-\nchamber for its young. A specimen of this interesting form was collected off the\nfloat of the Oak Bay Boat-house on January 6, 1958, by Mr. W. G. Fields, of\nVictoria College. I found another specimen stranded on a kelp frond at low tide at\nHarling Point, Victoria, June 28, 1961. It was very transparent, with four small\ndark pigmented areas in the large eyes, situated just dorsal to the mouth parts.\nScattered dark chromatophores were on the coxal plates of the thoracic appendages,\non abdominal segments 4-6, on the meri of the walking legs, on all joints of the\ngnathopod (third leg), and on the uropods.\nMYSIDS\nIn 1898 Alfred O. Walker identified a collection of Crustacea made the previous\nyear in Puget Sound by W. A. Herdman. Among the species found was a mysid,\nHeteromysis odontops, which he described as a new species. As this form has not\nbeen recorded since the original collection, specimens recently obtained at Victoria\nseem worthy of note. These were collected by Mr. Frank White on July 13, 1960,\nwhile skin diving, in 13 fathoms, off the breakwater at Victoria. An empty shell\nin a cluster of large barnacles, Balanus nubilus Darwin, contained 11 mysids of this\nspecies. This constitutes the first record for British Columbia and for Canada.\nAs the specimens were still alive, I made colour notes. The body was a deep\nyellow, and the females had either green eggs or yellow young in the brood-pouches.\nUnder magnification, branched red chromatophores were seen to be scattered over\nthe carapace, and in bands at the posterior margin of each abdominal segment. The\npeduncles of the antennules and antennae bore pigment spots, as did the bases of\nthe legs, while the flagella were red tinged.\n REPORT OF THE PROVINCIAL MUSEUM, 1961 W 19\nDECAPODS\nOn a number of visits to various beaches on the west and south-west coasts\nof Vancouver Island and to the area near Masset of Queen Charlotte Islands,\nduring periods of low tides, some species of rarely collected crabs have been found.\nIn several cases these records have extended the known distribution in British\nColumbia.\nThe pea crab, Pinnixa eburna Wells, is recorded in the literature as occurring\nonly in the vicinity of Victoria in British Columbia. In 1945-46 the late Edward\nF. Ricketts obtained this species at Masset (Yakan Point), Queen Charlotte Islands,\nand I have taken it at the sandspit of Witty's Lagoon (May 13, 1953), some 12\nmiles west of Victoria; at Whiffin Spit at Sooke (May 11, 1960), 10 miles farther\nwest; and at Cox Bay, Tofino, Clayoquot Sound (July 8, 1960). This small crab\nis commensal in the burrows of lug worms, Arenicola (Abarenicola) vagabunda\nvagabunda Healy and Wells, and A. (A) v. oceanica Healy and Wells.\nAnother pea crab, Pinnixa tubicola Holmes, which lives in the shell- and\ngravel-encrusted tubes of terebellid worms (Eupolymia sp.) has been recorded only\nfrom the more sheltered waters of British Columbia. Ricketts also found this species\non the west coast of Vancouver Island (Clayoquot region) and near Masset on the\nQueen Charlotte Islands. I, too, collected this species in the Clayoquot region (Cox\nBay, Tofino, July 8, 1960). At Clayoquot also, Ricketts found Fabia subquadrata\nDana, an inhabitant of various bivalve molluscs.\nSpecimens in the Ricketts collection extend the known range of Orthopagurus\nschmittx Stevens and Pugettia richii Dana northward to include the Queen Charlotte\nIslands.\nUntil recently a number of crabs and hermit crabs were known in British\nColumbia only from the exposed outer coasts. Thus the finding of some of these\nin more easterly localities is of some interest. Petrolisthes cinctipes (Randall) and\nPagurus hemphilli (Benedict) were taken at Botany Bay, Port Renfrew, May 4,\n1958; (Edignathus inermis (Stimpson) was collected at the same time and locality\nand also at China Beach (about 3 miles west of Jordan River) on April 16, 1960;\nMimulus foliatus Stimpson was taken at Muir Creek on June 22, 1959, and also\nat Whiffin Spit, Sooke, on June 11, 1960; and Pachycheles pubescens Holmes was\nfound on the breakwater at Victoria on May 23, 1959. The last named has been\nrarely taken in British Columbia: from Esperanza Inlet in 1934, from Ucluelet in\n1945-46 (E. F. Ricketts), and from Goose Island in 1948.\nThe amphipods were identified by Dr. Thomas B. Bowman, Division of Marine\nInvertebrates, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C, and the mysids\nby Dr. E. L. Bousfield, Canadian National Museum, Ottawa. Permission to use\nthe late Mr. E. F. Ricketts's records was granted by Dr. D. P. Abbott, Hopkins\nMarine Station, Pacific Grove, Calif.\n W 20 BRITISH COLUMBIA\nNESTING COLONY OF MEW GULLS ON KENNEDY LAKE-\nVANCOUVER ISLAND\nBy W. E. Ricker and Ferris Neave, Fisheries Research Board\nof Canada, Nanaimo, B.C.\nA colony of twenty-five to forty adult mew gulls (Larus canus L.) nests on\nsmall islands lying just east of Laylee Island in Kennedy Lake, 17 miles almost due\nnorth of Ucluelet, B.C. The principal nesting-site is a low island\u00E2\u0080\u0094here called\n\" Mew Gull Island \"\u00E2\u0080\u0094half a mile north of the south-eastern corner of Laylee and\nperhaps 150 yards east from that island. We encountered the gulls first in late\nafternoon of June 24, 1955, when, with Davis Neave and John Ricker, we were\nrelaying ourselves and supplies up-lake by motor-boat. The gulls were first seen\nshortly after we put off from the south shore, and they soon became noisy and\naggressive. On both trips from the southern tip of Laylee Island to our camp at\nthe second narrows north, about 4 miles, gulls accompanied the boat. The second\nvoyage started in the dusk and ended long after dark, but several of the birds stayed\nwith us all the way. Their shrill cries came down out of the gloom, and every little\nwhile a white phantom would dive down at us.\nOn the return trip we slept on a small island a mile north of Mew Gull Island,\nand rowed down past their home about 4 o'clock (Standard time) on the morning\nof June 28th. The gulls were again very critical. Whether because of this or our\nmotor trouble or rain-weariness, no landing was made to see what stage nesting had\nreached.\nFive years later we decided to have a good look at the colony. The west-coast\nroad had been built meanwhile, and an inspection with field-glasses from the east\nside of the lake in May of 1960 had shown that a group of gulls was still interested\nin Mew Gull Island. On June 26th we put a canoe in at the head of the lake and\npaddled the 6 miles down to the nesting-site. There were about nine nests on\nMew Gull Island that appeared to have been used that season. One had two eggs.\nWe found two young gulls well hidden among the colourful Claytonia, saxifrage,\ncolumbine, and Castilleja. Others may have been present. Several larger young\nswam away from the island after we landed, attended by anxious parents. The size\nof the young birds ranged from recently hatched to more than half-grown.\nThe island was about 200 by 75 feet, low, rocky or swampy, with a few small\ntrees and shrubs. Nests were widely scattered over it, usually on bare rock 3 or 4\nfeet above water-level. Photographs of eggs and young were taken \" for the\nrecord.\"\nReturning northward, we stopped in response to an increased volume of gull\nexcitement and found three more nests, all with eggs (two with three, one with four).\nThese were on the more southern of two small islands near the north-east corner\nof Laylee and about a mile north of Mew Gull Island\u00E2\u0080\u0094in fact, the place we had\ncamped on the return trip in 1955. The nests were along the top of the main ridge\nabout 20 feet above water-level, in the shade of 6-inch pine-trees\u00E2\u0080\u0094quite a different\nsetting from those of the larger colony. Another nest, also with eggs, was on a small\nbare rock only a few yards across, lying in the narrow channel between this island\nand the one next north.\nPaddling homeward, we noted much excitement from several gulls near the\nsouthern tip of Rocky Island. We landed, but found nothing. A little farther on,\nhowever, on a very small rock in the channel between Rocky Island and the \" mainland \" eastward, a mew gull was sitting on a nest.\n REPORT OF THE PROVINCIAL MUSEUM, 1961 W 21\nHow do these birds make a living? A clue is afforded by a fish found near one\nnest on Mew Gull Island. It was a fairly well preserved embiotocid, Cymatogaster\naggregatus, the yellow shiner that is common around docks and rocks of the British\nColumbia coast. Evidently at least part of the foraging of these gulls is done on salt\nwater, which is 7 miles distant on the south-east (Toquart Bay) and a little farther\non the north-west (Tofino Inlet) or south-west (Pacific Ocean).\nAlthough the mew gull is an abundant winter bird in South-western British\nColumbia, there is only a handful of nesting records for the Province (Munro and\nCowan, 1947). The Kennedy Lake colony is the most southerly one known in\nBritish Columbia, and in America. A breeding record for Harrison River is only 10\nmiles or so farther north, but it apparently involved only one nest, built on a pile\ndriven into the river mud (information from Dr. I. McTaggart Cowan). The nearest\nknown group of nests is at Rivers Inlet. However, if nesting has gone unrecorded\nup to now on such a comparatively well-known lake as Kennedy, there may well\nbe other colonies spotted among the remote Coastal lakes of Vancouver Island and\nthe Southern Mainland.\nREFERENCE\nMunro, J. A., and Cowan, I. McTaggart. 1947. A review of the bird fauna of\nBritish Columbia. Special Publication, British Columbia Provincial Museum,\nVictoria, B.C.\nPrinted by A. Sutton, Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty\nin right of the Province of British Columbia.\n1962\n1,260-162-7177\n "@en . "Legislative proceedings"@en . "J110.L5 S7"@en . "1962_V02_14_W1_W20"@en . "10.14288/1.0363244"@en . "English"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . 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