86 NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: 
A Mr. Cunningham, who is a reliable trader and storekeeper 
at Port Essington, at the mouth of the Skeena River, stated to 
Mr. Kermode that every year he gets some white bear skins, in 
trade, and that they have come to him “only from the district 
south of the Skeena River, and have been taken as far south as 
Rivers Inlet. The most of them, however, have come from 
Kitimat Arm, which is just north of Gribble Island, about 
Meats Aer 
The man who shot the type specimen (No. 1) has stated that 
he knows of 18 other white bears having been taken in the region 
which furnished the type. 
Apparently, the only reasons why this interesting ursine form 
has so long remained unnoticed are that no scientific collector 
has visited its locality, and the skins that have been taken have 
drifted into the fur trade, and quickly disappeared. No doubt 
they have been universally regarded, outside of British Columbia, 
as skins of young polar bears. 
