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century. Among those who have passed away are the lamented naturalist, Robert 

 Kennioott; Chief Factors AVilliam L. Hardisty and Lawrence Clarke; Chief Traders 

 Bernard R. Ross, James Lockhart, John Wilson, and John Reid, and Messrs. 

 Strachan Jones, A. Mackenzie, Andrew Flett, James Flett, J. Sih))iston, and Wil- 

 liam Brass; also the recently deceased Bishop Grandin, D. D., of St. Albert, Alberta, 

 who contributed more than one interesting specimen during his former mission 

 sojourn in the Mackenzie District. Neither has death spared the Hmithsonian Insti- 

 tution. The eminent Professors Henry and Baird, together with the able Assistant 

 Secretary, Dr. G. Brown Goode, the genial and experienced zoologist, Maj. C. E. 

 Bendire and others, have been called away. 



MEADOW MOUSE. 



M'icTOtufi dnimmoiidl (Audubon and Bachman). 



Quite a larg'e number of skins were forwarded from Fort Anderson 

 to Washington. Tlie}^ were obtained from the Eslvimos of the Mac- 

 kenzie and Anderson rivers, while a few were secured in the neiohbor- 

 hood of the fort. In severel}' cold winters individual mice are often 

 found dead in stores and outhouses, and also on the snow in sparsely 

 wooded tracts of country. Disease may, however, be sometimes the 

 real cause of death. Some Indians assert that some species of mice 

 breed oftener than once annually. 



LITTLE MEADOW MOUSE. 



Microtu's macfarlani Merriam. 



The Indians, and especialh-^ the Eskimos, who resorted to Fort 

 Anderson, supplied a large proportion of the specimens received by 

 the Smithsonian Institution from the Mackenzie River region, in 

 course of the 3'ears from 1861 to 1866, inclusive. There are seasons 

 during which mice are exceptionally abundant in different parts of the 

 great Canadian northwest. 



CHESTNUT-CHEEKED MOUSE, 



Microtus .ratitJtognathus (Leach). 



This comparatively large mouse is very abundant most seasons in 

 the far north, as well as along the arctic coast of Canada. Numerous 

 skins thereof were secured at Fort Yukon (Alaska), Forts McPher- 

 son, Anderson, Good Hope, Norman, Simpson, Big Island, Kae, and 

 Resolution, Great Slave Lake. 



TAWNY LEMMING. 



Lemmus trimucronaiux (Richardson). 



From the polar shores of Liverpool Bay and Cape Bathurst, from 

 the lower Anderson River, from the neighborhood of Fort Anderson, 

 from Fort McPherson on Peel River, and from Fort Yukon in east- 

 ern Alaska, many examples were obtained of this small animal, which 



