Mr. Stone gave special attention to large game. At the end of the Kanai season 

 Mr. Stone, accompanied 1>\ Mr. Figgins. made a special expedition to the western 

 end of the Alaska Peninsula to procure Caribous and Bears. The season's work 

 at both localities was eminently successful, resulting in a collection of 350 mam- 

 mals and }oo birds, representing species, with few exceptions, wholly new to the 



Fig. 24. URSUS MERRIAMI. 



Taken at head of Muller Bay, Alaska Peninsula, May, 1903. An old male, No. 21804. From 

 a specimen mounted at the Museum by James L. Clark to form part of a group of Alaska Penin- 

 sula Bears. 



American Museum collections. The mammals included 5 Moose, 15 Caribou, 14 

 White Sheep, n Bears, and 8 additional Bear skulls, and about 300 small mam- 

 mals, consisting mostly of Voles, Shrews, and Squirrels, but including a few Foxes, 

 Martins, Weasels, and a Wolverene. The Caribous were all taken on the western 

 end of the Alaska Peninsula and represented a new species since named in honor 



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