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of notes made by Drummond or Lord a? to the habitat of the type 

 specimens of this marten, 



Faimal Distribution. — Humid interior region of British Colum- 

 bia, peculiar to the Selkirk and Gold Ranges. 



Description of Species. — Gray's description reads: " Black- 

 brown ; ears pale, head grizzled with white hairs, more or less gray ; 

 throat yellow or yellow-spotted ; throat spot large or broken up into 

 small spots ; the head sometimes with only a few gray hairs, and 

 the throat with only a few distinct small spots." A specimen sent 

 to me from Vernon, British Columbia, by W. C. Pound, a taxi- 

 dermist with whom I became acquainted while in that place in 

 1892, is of especial interest in this connection. It was taken 

 November 22, 1892, and no doubt was brought to Mr. Pound by 

 an Indian trapper whom he dealt with, living in the Gold Range 

 above Vernon. Such, at least, was the source of his supplies of 

 larger game and furs during my residence there. The skull and 

 skin of this specimen indicate it to be an adult, but not very aged, 

 female. The naso-premaxillary sutures are not wholly obliterated, 

 as in over-aged specimens, but the occipital crest is that of a fully 

 matured marten, perhaps three or four years old. The color of this 

 specimen answers exactly Gray's description of " black-broivn.'' 

 In this respect it is instantly distinguished from all other of the 

 specimens of marten I have before me, both by the quality and depth 

 as well as the uniformity of its coloration. In terms of Bidgway's 

 Nomenclature of Colors, this specimen is seal-brown throughout, 

 both above and below, with exception of the sides of the head, the 

 interior of ears and a small irregular throat patch. The shade of 

 this seal-brown is blackest on tail, feet, legs and middle back. On 

 sides, under parts, neck and head it is more of a vandyke-brown, 

 but nowhere buffy, ochraceous or orange, as in all other martens I 

 have examined.^ A cheek patch between ear and eye and the 

 insides and margins of ears are grayish-drab, but the rest of head 

 above and below is not noticeably paler than neck as in all others 

 of the americana group found east of the Rocky mountains. Scat- 

 tered white hairs are noticeable among the dark body pelage above 

 and below, being more numerous about head, neck and breast. 

 The narrow, irregular throat patch reaches from angle of lower jaw 



^ The jSTewfoundland species, M. atrata, which I have not seen, is prob- 

 nbly another exception. 



