Raccoon 1015 



10 miles above Truesbank, and a number of Coon signs were 

 reported along the river banks near BIyth. 



W. R. Hine mounted one taken near Winnipeg — it is now in 

 possession of Sheriff Inkester — and WiUiam G. Tweddell tells 

 me that he knew of one being killed in the country north of 

 Shoal Lake. 



I saw a very large and dark specimen that was taken on 

 the Upper Assiniboine, near Fort Ellice, about 1884. 



In September, 1904, J. J. G. Rosser, of Hudson's Bay 

 Company, at Winnipegosis showed me a coon-skin taken on 

 Waterhen River at the second rapids by an Indian, Francis 

 Katchaway, October, 1903. The trapper did not know what 

 he had caught — said it looked like a cat. None of his people 

 had seen one before. This is the only one ever taken near this 

 post, and is the northernmost record for the Province. Rosser 

 heard of another that was killed at Valley River (Dauphin 

 Lake) quite recently. 



Angus Brabant, Inspector for Hudson's Bay Company 

 and former Chief Factor, saw a Raccoon taken at Pine Creek, 

 60 miles north of Dauphin, Man., Lake Winnipegosis, 1890. 



"William McKirdy, of Nipigon, told me that a few years other 

 ago a Raccoon was killed by some Indians near Lake Nipigon 

 and brought to the Hudson's Bay Company's post. Neither 

 Indians nor traders ever had seen the animal in the region 

 before, and to most of the former it was entirely unknown."' 

 (Miller.) 



George F. Guernsey writes me from Fort Qu' Appelle: 

 "December 14, 1906. — Within the last 20 years I have known 

 of 2 Raccoon being taken some 50 miles north of here, in 

 Touchwood Hills, which are heavily timbered with poplar and 

 birch. But they are so rare that the Indian who took one of 

 them did not know what it was; there are none in the Qu' 

 Appelle Valley — not enough timber, for one thing." 



A newspaper clipping recently directed my attention to a 

 still farther record. On writing to the person interested, W. H. 



' Mam. Ont., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., April, 1897, p. 41. 



