MINK, Mustela vison 



(Tigakpuk) 



Range. — Most of North America south to the 

 Gulf of Mexico. 



Hdiifaf. — Margins of streams, lakes, marshes, 

 and marine islands; may occur in woods some dis- 

 tance from water in winter. 



Races in Ah^ka. — The race ingen-s (type local- 

 ity: Fort Yukon) ranges over most of mainland 

 Alaska except in the southern coastal ai'eas and 

 the Arctic Slope; melampeplus (type locality: 

 Kenai Peninsula) ranges along the soutiiern main- 

 land from the Alaska Peninsula (Cold Bay) to 



Prince William Sound; nesolextes (type locality; 

 Windfall Harbor, Admiralty Island) occurs on 

 Admiralty, Baranof, Chichagof, Coronation, 

 Kupreanof, Prince of Wales, and Revillagigedo 

 Islands, and on the Cleveland Peninsula of the 

 southeastern archipelago; energumenos occupies 

 much of western Canada and the mainland of 

 southeastern Alaska below the lower Taku River. 



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