16 BANGS — LABRADOR MAMMALS Pee 
Remarks.— Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, Jr., has pointed out, in his 
‘Mammals of Ontario,’’ that Sorex personatus increases in size 
wherever it enters the Hudsonian life zone. The specimens he 
had from the north shore of Lake Superior did not differ 
materially in color from true .S. personatus. The large form of 
Alaska is, however, much darker in color, and the large form of 
Labrador much grayer. 
True Sorex personatus does not differ much in color in winter 
and summer — the fur is rather longer and fuller in winter, and 
is, 1f anything, darker in color than the summer coat. The 
Labrador shrew has two distinct pelages, much as the large 
Canadian S. fumeus Miller has, a brown summer, and a drab gray 
winter one. The Black Bay series is very complete, and covers 
the period at which the change from summer to winter pelage 
takes place. The winter coat is apparently assumed about the 
first of October, and must be acquired very quickly, as there are 
no specimens in the change. One old female, no. 8665, taken 
October 3, is still in summer pelage, but, as she was nursing 
young at the time of her capture, her change in pelage had 
probably been delayed. All others taken in October, and one 
taken September 22, are in their winter dress. 
Rangifer caribou (Gml.). 
One fine old female, with small antlers, taken September 3, 
1898. ‘This specimen is of particular interest, as it was killed 
directly opposite Newfoundland. It differs in no way that I can 
detect from specimens, of about corresponding dates, from Maine, 
Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, and in no way approaches the 
remarkable island species occupying Newfoundland. 
What a pity it is that the utter fallacy, that the Newfoundland 
caribou crosses from Newfoundland to Labrador, should be 
perpetuated in such a book as Lydekker’s ‘ Deer of All Lands’! 
The Newfoundland caribou, Rangifer terrenove Bangs, is an 
island species, peculiar to Newfoundland. It is wholly unlike the 
woodland caribou of the continent. Its regular migrations are 
1 Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. 28, No. 1, Apr., 1897, pp. 35-36. 
