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Specimens taken towards the end of April and in May show <:oiisider;iliii- darkening on the 

 back and much rufous on the sides, but we obtained none like those in tlic National Museum, which 

 show the winter-coat, partly shed, exposing the shorter bright-colored summer dress. 



All June specimens were ill full summer pelage. 



24. SPERMOPHILUS EMPETRA (Pall.) Allen. 

 PAKUY'S SPEUMOPHILE (SVMii). 



This is only a straggler anywhere near the station, though the whalemen, who are in the habit 

 of liimling at Woody Inlet for wood and water, report it abundant in the neighborhood. The natives 

 are well acquainted with it. 



\\ e first noticed its tracks in the snow in May, 1883, and a single rutting male was killed 

 running about on the high banks below Cape Smythe. 



25. LEPUS TIMIDT7S ARCTICUS Allen. 



POLAE HARE. 



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There were absolutely none near the station, and the natives were unacquainted with the- 

 animals, ('apt. E. P. Ilerendeeu, however, reports seeing traces of hares among the willows on 

 Meatlc, River in March, 1SSH. 



Just as we were on the point of abandoning the station in August, 1883, a party of Nunatang- 

 menu Eskimos brought in half a dozen roughly-prepared skins of this spe'cies, showing the occur- 

 rence of the animals somewhere in the Colville region. 



