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Robillard it is very rare about Fort McKay. Two, however, 

 were taken there during the autumn of 1906. C. Harding told 

 us that about a dozen were taken each year in the country trib- 

 utary to Fort Resolution. Thomas Anderson of Fort Smith in- 

 formed us that the fishers were very rare in that vicinity. An 

 occasional one is traded from the Liard River, and in November, 

 1905, a small female was trapped near the mouth of the North 

 Nahanni where it enters the MacKenzie. This was the northern- 

 most record known to the natives to whom it was a new animal. 



Gulo luscus (Linn.). Hudson Bay Wolverene. 



The wolverene was stated by Robillard, our half-breed canoe- 

 man, to be rather common in the vicinity of Fort McKay. We 

 obtained skulls at Fort Reliance, and saw the tracks of a female 

 and her young on several occasions near our camp at the tree 

 limit on Artillery Lake. 



Joseph Hoole, interpreter at Smith Landing, told us that he 

 had seen the tracks of a wolverene following the track of a moose, 

 near Moose Lake, sixty miles west of Smith Landing. The 

 Indians say that wolverene will kill moose, following them till 

 they begin to run in circles and go sort of crazy. 



Some interesting anecdotes of the wolverene mother are given 

 in the narrative, pages 252-254. 



Sorex personatus I. Geoffrey. Common Eastern Shrew. 



A specimen of this small species was taken at Fort Smith on 

 June 17. It is common throughout the region north to the limit 

 of trees. 



Lasiurus cinereus (Beauvois). Hoary Bat. 



This large bat was seen on but one occasion at Fort Resolu- 

 tion, during the late evening of July 12. This is apparently the 

 northernmost record for the species in this region. 



