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along on construction trains and special trains, and furnished 

 with government post-horses over the uncompleted section of 

 more than one hundred miles through the Khingan Mountains, 

 so that we reached Irkutsk thirteen days later, and Moscow on 

 November 5 ; was in St. Petersburg on the loth, Berlin on the 

 1 5th, Paris on the i;th, and sailed from Cherbourg on the 

 'Kron Prinz Wilhelm' for New York on the 2oth, where I 

 arrived November 26, 1902. 



During my stay in Siberia I was placed under many obliga- 

 tions to many of the Russian government officials and private 

 citizens, to whom my cordial thanks are hereby extended. I 

 am especially indebted to Governor Chichigoff of the Premor- 

 ski Province for official letters to the various officers of the 

 posts under his jurisdiction and for an excellent botanical 

 collection from Eastern Siberia; to S. I. Ankoodenoff, Com- 

 mandant at Gichiga; S. I. Pahderin, Captain of Cossacks at 

 Gichiga; and to N. P. Sokolnikoff, Commandant at Marcova, 

 who gave me much valuable information concerning the 

 Anadyrski country, and also a small collection of birds and 

 mammals. To all the people of the settlements of Ay an, Ola, 

 Okhotsk, Gichiga, and Marcova, and in fact to all the Russians 

 with whom I came in contact, I am deeply indebted for their 

 unlimited hospitality and uniform good-will. 



ANNOTATED LIST OF MAMMALS. 



i. Delphinapterus leucas (Pallas). 



WHITE WHALE. 



Represented by a foetal specimen. Most of the field notes 

 and the measurements relating to this species were made by 

 Mr. Buxton at Point Barrow, Alaska, in 1898. 



"Abundant, probably remaining in the Okhotsk Sea the 

 entire year. During July and August, when the salmon are 

 running, they are especially abundant in the Gichiginski Gulf. 

 At that time, when the tide is high, they come in to the head 

 of the Gulf just off the mouth of the Gichiga and Ovecho Rivers 



