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where they were plentiful. He described the country there as 

 sandy and grown up to jackpine. Gregoire Daniels of Fort 

 Chipewyan informed us that the animals are still common on 

 the south side of Lake Athabaska to the eastward of the mouth 

 of the river. He has seen three or four during a day's hunt 

 there. On one occasion he saw an old one accompanied by two 

 young. He describes them as being very small, jet black in 

 color, with long thick tails. George Sanderson of Fort Resolu- 

 tion, another of our canoemen, told us that he killed two por- 

 cupines in 1906 at Rocher River on the south side of Great Slave 

 Lake, fifteen miles east of Stony Island. At Fort Resolution we 

 saw a skin in the possession of J. McLenaghen, which had been 

 taken at The Narrows of Great Slave Lake. 



Murdo McKay says he has often found bears with porcupine 

 quills in paws and legs, but never saw much injury from them 

 or heard of a bear killed by a porcupine. 



Lepus americanus Erxleben. Hudson Bay Varying Hare. 



White Rabbit. 



This species, which is found by thousands throughout the 

 region during the years of its abundance, was so nearly absent 

 during the season of 1907 that many natives, who had been in 

 the woods daily during the summer, had not seen one, and we 

 failed to observe a single rabbit during the six months we spent 

 in the region. Signs indicating abundance during recent years 

 were observed on the shore of Great Slave Lake, near Mountain 

 Portage, and near Fort Reliance. 



Full details are given in the narrative, chapters XIV and XV. 



Lepus arciicus canus Preble. Keewatin Arctic Hare. 



Although signs of Arctic hare were seen at a number of places 

 from Artillery Lake northward, we observed only a very few of 

 the animals. We saw one on a large island, near the north shore 

 of Clinton-Golden Lake, on August 11, and many tracks near 

 the western end of the same lake on August 12. An adult fe- 

 male was collected near the western extremity of Aylmer Lake 



