THE MAMMALIA OF CANADA. 77 



Ursus Americanus, Pallas. 



Black Bear. Brown Bear. 

 Mus-kioa. Cree. 

 Ma-Tcioa. Sanlteaux. 

 Common throughout Canada from the Atlantic to the 

 Pacific, as far north as tlie northern limit of trees. 



ThaLASSARCTOS MARITIiMUS, Linn. 

 Polar Bear. White Bear, 

 Alonjj; the shores and on the islands of the Arctic Ocean, 

 sometimes stravino; about a hundred miles inland. 



PINNIPEDIA. 



Odobaenus R08MARUS, Molmgren. 

 Walrus. 

 In comparatively recent times it inhabited the shores of 

 Nova. Scotia. Now it is confined to the shores of Labrador,. 

 Hudson's Strait and Bay and Davis Strait, as far north as 

 explorers have reached. It appears to be very rarely met 

 with between Melville Peninsula and Point Barrow. 



EuMATOPius Stelleri, Lesson . 

 Sea Lion. 

 Shores of the North Pacific from Behring's Strait south- 

 ward to California. 



Calloehinus ursinus, yLin7i.) Gray. 

 Northern Fur Seal. Sea Bear. 

 West coast of British Columbia from Alaska to the Interna- 

 tional Boundary. 



Phoca viiuLiNA, Linn. 



Harbor Seal. Fresh-water Seal. 

 Ka-si-gia. Eskimo. 

 This species inhabits both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts 



