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Delphinus truncatus Montagu. Memos. Wernerian Soc., Vol. 



Ill, p. 75. 1821. 



Common on the south and east coasts. 



I am under the greatest obligation to Dr. Glover M. Allen for 

 helping me prepare this list of the Labrador cetaceans. Many of 

 the species were observed and identified by him during a cruise 

 along the coast in the summer of 1906. 



18. PARALCES AMERICANUS Clinton. Moose. 



Cervus americanus Clinton. Letters on Nat. Hist, and Int. 



Resources of New York, p. 193. 1822. 



Low is in doubt whether or not the moose enters the south- 

 western limits of Labrador. It is occasionally killed in the region 

 about Lake Edward, Quebec. 



19. RANGIFER CARIBOU Gml. Woodland caribou. 



Cervus tarandus y. caribou Gmelin. Syst. Nat., Vol. I, p. 177. 



1789. 



Reported by Low to now be very rare, almost exterminated, 

 though formerly abundant throughout the wooded regions. 

 Low also says that the destruction of the woodland caribou has 

 resulted in the dying off, from actual starvation, of a large propor- 

 tion of the interior Indians, which, in its turn, has caused a great 

 increase in the numbers of the fur-bearing animals. 



Mr. Ernest Doane took specimens at Black Bay in September, 

 1898, and sent me three fine adult females and a male. 



20. RANGIFER ARCTICUS Richardson. Barren-ground caribou. 

 Cervus tarandus var. a. arctica Richardson. F. B. A., Vol. I, 



p. 241. 1829. 



According to Low, the barren-ground caribou still ranges in 

 immense herds over the barrens and semi-barrens, south to the 

 Mealy Mountains, between Hamilton Inlet and Sandwich Bay. 



21. SCIURUS HUDSONICUS HUDSONicus Erxl. Northern pine squir- 



rel ; red squirrel. 



Sciurus vulgaris c. hudsonicus Erxl. Mammalia, p. 416. 1777. 

 Type Locality. Hudson Strait. 



Common in the wooded regions, and extending into the semi- 

 barrens. Goldthwaite took specimens at Rigolet. Turner took 

 specimens at Fort Chimo and at Forks, Northwest River, and 

 Doane sent me a large series from Black Bay. 



22. ARCTOMYS IGNAVUS Bangs. Labrador woodchuck. 

 Arctomys ignavus Bangs. Proc. New Eng. Zool. Club, Vol. I, 



p. 13. 1899. 



Type Locality. Black Bay, Labrador. 



Common throughout southern Labrador, in the region about 

 Black Bay and L'Anse au Loup. 



Low speaks of a woodchuck as common in the country between 



