APPENDIX F 



A LIST OF THE MAMMALS NOTED ON THE SETON 

 EXPEDITION OF 1907. 1 



Odocoileus hemionus (Rafinesque). Mule Deer. 



This species is called the jumping deer along the Athabaska. 

 During our northward journey we were ashore so seldom that 

 we collected no data on the species, but while returning we had 

 a better opportunity to see its tracks, and to get information 

 from hunters. Our half-breed canoeman, Elzear Robillard, of 

 Fort McKay, told us that there are now a great many jumping 

 deer in that vicinity, but that they had come recently. They now 

 extend down the Athabaska as far as Point Brule"; last winter 

 Aleck McDonald of Fort McMurray killed five or six near the 

 Cascade Rapid. They frequent the higher ground, evidently dis- 

 liking the muskeg country, and are most numerous near the river. 

 The Crees call the species Ah-pe-shee Moos-oos. 



While tracking up the Athabaska above Grand Rapids, we 

 saw many tracks along the banks, especially in the vicinity of 

 Pelican Rapid, on October 26, and above there on the following 

 day. We also noted tracks near Calling River on October 29, 

 and below Athabaska Landing October 31. Later we saw a 

 skin in the possession of W. E. Whiteley, about twenty miles 

 south of Athabaska Landing. 



Cervus canadensis Erxleben. Canadian Wapiti. 



E. Robillard told us that Elk, or, as he called them, Reindeer 

 (" the size of a horse, and all brown with white rumps and round 



*A catalogue of the actual specimens taken (270, representing 25 

 species) has already been published by Dr. J. A. Allen in the Bulletin of 

 the American Museum of Natural History, New York, Jan. 5, 1910, 

 under title, "Mammals from Athabaska-Mackenzie Region of Canada," 

 vol. XXVIII, art. II, pp. 7-11. 



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