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LIST OF THE MAMMALS OF LABRADOR 

 BY OUTRAM BANGS 



AT Dr. Grenf ell's request I have prepared the following list of 

 the mammals of the Labrador peninsula. As I had before written 

 a list of the mammals of this region, 1 it was very simple to compile 

 the present one, which is merely the old one corrected and brought 

 up to date. 



In this list political divisions of the region are disregarded, and 

 the area considered includes the whole Labrador peninsula lying to 

 the northward of a line joining the mouth of the river St. Lawrence 

 and the foot of James Bay. 



I am able to say very little about the habits of the various forms 

 of mammalian life, occurring in the great Labrador peninsula, 

 knowing them myself only from museum specimens, but under each 

 species or subspecies the distribution, so far as it is known, is given, 

 the first reference is cited, and where a form was described from 

 Labrador the type locality is mentioned. 



I believe the list to be practically complete ; the species are all 



f'ven by the names in current use by the best systematists. 

 trust it may prove of some help to those interested in the biota of 

 the great peninsula. 



1. BAL.ENA GLACIALIS Bonnat. 



Balcena glacialis (Right whale) Bonnat. Tab. Encycl. Ceta- 



logil, p. 3. 1789. 



Formerly common on east and south coasts, now nearly exter- 

 minated. 



2. BAL^NA MYSTICETUS Linn. Bow head ; Greenland whale. 

 Balcena mysticetus Linn. Fauna Suecica, Vol. II, p. 16. 1761. 



Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait, along the edge of the ice. 



3. MEGAPTERA NODOSA Bonnat. Humpbacked whale. 

 Balcena nodosa Bonnat. Tab. Encycl. Cetalogil., p. 5. 1789. 



Common on south and east coasts. 



* American Naturalist, Vol. XXXII, No. 379, July, 1898, pp. 489- 

 507. 



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