80 NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



.A. Mr. Cunningham, who is a rchahle trader and storekeeper 

 a'L Port Essingion, at the mouth of the .Skeena River, staled to 

 Mr. I\c-rm()(k' that every year he gets some white I)ear skins, in 

 track', and that they have come to liim "onl\ frcmi the cHstrict 

 south of the Skeena River, and have ])een taken as far south as 

 Rivers Inkl. The most of them, liowever, lia\-i' come from 

 Kitimat Arm, which is just north of Gribble Iskuul, about 

 Lat. 54°-" 



The man wlio shot the type specimen (No. i) lias stated that 

 he knows of i8 other white Ijears having lieen taken in the region 

 which furnished the type. 



Apparentlv, the onl\- reasons \\h\ this intt'restiiig m-sine form 

 has so long remained unnoticed are tlial no scientitic colk'ctor 

 has visited its locaHty, and the skins that liave l)een taken have 

 drifted into the fur trade, and quickly (iisa])iieare(k Xo (knibt 

 the\- have been universallv rcgardeik outside of llritish CoUunl)ia, 

 as skins of xor.ng pok'ir bears. 



