The Origin and Distribution of Birds in Coastal Alaska and British Columbia: The Lost Manuscript Scott Weidensaul retraces Peterson and

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The Origin and Distribution of Birds in Coastal Alaska and British Columbia: The Lost Manuscript Scott Weidensaul retraces Peterson andThe Lost Manuscript of Ornithologist Harry S. Swarth. At the time of his death in 1935, Harry S. Swarth, head of the Mammalogy and Ornithology Departments at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, had been preparing a manuscript reflecting on twenty five years of his research in coastal Alaska and British Columbia. The Distribution and Migrations of Birds in Adjacent Alaska and British Columbia summarized Swarth's research, ideas, and