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Houuister, N. 
Four new mammals from the Canadian Rockies. 
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, December, 1911, vol. 56, No. 
26, pp. 1-4. ; 
These mammals are :—a new species of chipmunk (Hutamias ludibundus, 
from Yellowhead lake, British Columbia); a new subspecies of ground- 
squirrel (Callospermophilus lateralis tescorum, from Moose Pass branch 
of Smoky river, Alberta); and two new species of bats (Myotis altifrons 
and M. pernox, from Henry House, Alberta). ; 
A Systematice Synopsis of the Muskrats. 
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Biological Survey, North 
American Fauna, No. 32, April 29, 1911, pp. 1-38, with bibliography, 
map shewing distribution, and five plates. 
This report treats most comprehensively and exactly of the existing 
species and subspecies of muskrats in Canada and the United States. 
The fossil species are also dealt with. 
JOHNSTON, Sir H. H. 
Big-game shooting in Patagonia and Newfoundland. 
Nature, March 16, 1911, vol. 86, No. 2159, pp. 80-81, with two text- 
figures contrasting the heads of Canadian and Norwegian Elk. 
Mearns, Epaar A. 
New names for two subspecies of Peromyscus maniculatus (Wagner). 
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, May, 1911, vol. 
xxiv, pp. 101-102. 
For the preoccupied name Hesperomys leucopus arcticus, Mearns, 
applied to the Arctic Deer Mouse from Fort Simpson, Mackenzie river, 
N. W. T. (Bull Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York, ii, 1890, p. 285), the 
nave Peromyscus maniculatus borealis is here proposed by the author. 
Morcn, J. A. 
On the Natural History of Whalebone Whales. 
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1911, September, 
part III, pp. 661-670, text-figures 160-163. 
OBERHOLTZER, ERNEST C. 
Some Observations on Moose. 
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1911, June, part II, 
pp. 358-364. 
This paper, read before the Society on 7th March, 1911, treats of the 
habits of Moose as observed in the Rainy Lake district, Ontario. 
SETON, ERNEST THOMPSON. 
The Arctic Prairies. 
Scribner’s Magazine, February, 1911, vol. xlix, No. 2, pp. 207-223, with 
illustrations, and text-map. 
Describes. a trip in the country north-east of Great Slave lake and 
furnishes information regarding the musk-ox and other mammals. 
This has also appeared in separate book form, published by Charles 
Scribner’s Sons, 1911. In appendix F is a list of the mammals ob- 
served during the expedition. The birds are given in another appendix 
(G). 
