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close of outfit 1801 he had known of only two in.stances, and in ])oth 

 the examples were secured on the verue of the "Barren Grounds," 

 situated near the eastern end of Great Slave Lake, The \Qvy next 

 season, however, after his departure from Fort Resolution in 18(52, 

 the same Indian tribe killed one summer and thi'ee prime winter skins 

 thereof. Outtit 1872 also records another winter example. From 

 1853 to 1877 the company had \n all but 1,10() ))lue foxes for sale in 

 London, an average of only -li a year. The three best vears sales were 

 in 180-1, with 82 skins, 18()H, with 12-1 skins, and 1873 with 90 skins. 

 The smallest sales were 3 skins in 1800, and 13 skins in 1S08, while 

 the years 1857, 1859, and 1871 yielded but 15 skins each. Chief 

 Factor Robert Camp])ell, one of my predecessors in cliaroe of Atha- 

 basca District, received three skins in 1859 and two more in 1862 

 from the most northerl}^ Indians who resort to Fond du Lac, Atha- 

 basca. During- my fourteen years' management, we obtained 15 skins 

 from the same "Barren Ground" quarter. It may also be mentioned 

 that between 1862 and 1883 the district of ^lackenzie River traded 

 140 skins, nearly all from the Eskimos resorting to Fort McPherson. 

 Fort Good Hope gave an occasional skin as the result of Indian trade 

 with the Eskimos of the Anderson after the Fort was abandoned in 

 1866. In 1886 Fort McPherson turned out three and Good Hope 

 three also. In 1887 the former gave eleven skins and the latter one. 

 In 1889 Fort McPherson had one, Rampart House one, and Lac du 

 Brochet, Reindeer Lake, traded seven skins from its northern inland 

 Eskimos. Sir James C. Ross ol)tained three examples of this fox on 

 the shores of Boothia. Parry secured several, and although Armstrong 

 and Kellett of the Resolute^ each have about lifty foxes in their game 

 lists, which have been considered as white, one or more of them may 

 have been blue. Nares, as above stated, observed a "mottled" speci- 

 men, while Greely w rites that eighteen of the twenty secured by him 

 on Grinnell Land were free from any sign or mark of white, red, or 

 yellow, and that all of them were siiialler in size and lighter in weight 

 than the twelve of his captured dozen of T" lagopxf^. McCIintock, 

 however, shot a prime blue fox while drifting in the J^)x with the 

 pack ice in the winter of 1857-58, although 130 geographical miles 

 from the nearest land. It was very fat, having probal)ly lived on 

 dovekies. McCIintock often observed tracks of the arctic fox follow- 

 ing the polar bear for discarded seal scraps. 



WOLVERINE— CARCAJOU. 



Gulo litscus (Linniinis). 



This comparatively powerful and very destructive animal is to be 

 met with all over the northern continent to and along the shores of the 

 Polar Ocean. Although Doctor Armstrong does not have the wolverine 



