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interparietal; and the lighter, less flaring zygomata, the outer 

 side of which is more nearly straight, thus giving a much more 

 triangular outline to the skull as seen from above. The nasals 

 are also said to be shorter and wider. 



Concerning the present status of the beaver in Newfound- 

 land, little accurate information is at hand. Bangs, in 1913, 

 wrote that "though much trapped for its fur, it still occurs in 

 fair numbers in the remoter parts of the island," and probably 

 this still holds true. It doubtless finds the more barren portions 

 of the country less suitable to its needs and hence can be 

 expected to thrive best in the western and central parts of the 

 island. Dugmore, in his "Romance of the Beaver," published 

 about 1913, writes that when he first visited Newfoundland 

 about 1900 and in annual visits during the three succeeding 

 years, he never saw but one beaver colony, and that a very 

 small one in a remote and rather inaccessible part of the 

 country. Under governmental protection, however, beavers 

 multiplied in following years so that on visiting the same 

 region in 1912 he counted no less than 27 lodges within a short 

 day of walking and canoeing. As elsewhere, this illustrates 

 how readily beavers will breed up to the carrying capacity of 

 the land if free from persecution, for their natural enemies 

 are few. 



For a comment on the recent status of beavers in Newfound- 

 land I am indebted to Frank Strickland, who is familiar with 

 conditions there. He says that previous to the declaration of 

 a close time on beavers, about 1917, they were plentiful in 

 Grand Lake and Red Indian Lake, but today they are very 

 scarce in that section. What beavers are left in Newfoundland 

 are mostly to be found between Port Saunders north to White 

 Bay and between Gander River east to the bottom of Bay 

 d'Espoir, including thus the central districts of the island. 



CAROLINA BEAVER; SOUTHEASTERN BEAVER 



CASTOR CANADENSIS CAROLINENSIS Rhoads 



Castor canadensis carolinensis Rhoads, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc., new ser., vol. 19, p. 

 420, Sept. 1898 ("Dan River, near Danbury, Stokes County, North Carolina"). 

 FIGS.: Rhoads, 1898, pi. 23, figs. 1, 2 (skull). 



The beaver of the southeastern United States is broader- 

 tailed than typical canadensis., and in this respect it resembles 



