Article XXIV. MAMMALS COLLECTED IN ALASKA BY 

 THE ANDREW J. STONE EXPEDITION OF 1903. 



By J. A. ALLEN. 



The mammals obtained by the Andrew J. Stone Expedi- 

 tion of 1903 number 873, including about 30 large mammals 

 (moose, sheep, bears, etc.), and represent 28 species. About 

 140 specimens were collected on the Bering Sea side of the 

 Alaska Peninsula, near Muller Bay (Port Muller of most 

 maps), and the remainder on the Kenai Peninsula, principally 

 near Seldovia. A few bear skulls were obtained on Kadiak 

 Island. 



Mr. Stone, with his two assistants, Messrs. Malcolm P. 

 Anderson and Belmore H. Browne, who also accompanied 

 him in 1902, left Seattle, April 24, and after a sea voyage of 

 about twenty days reached Sand Point, Alaska, May 14. 

 Two hunters were engaged at Unga Island, and the head of 

 Portage Bay was reached on the night of May 15. The next 

 day the party (five men in all) began to transport their sup- 

 plies over the portage to Herendeen Bay, this arduous work 

 occupying four days ; the snow being deep and in places soft, 

 the work proved difficult and exceedingly fatiguing. On 

 May 23 the first hunting camp was established, well up on 

 Muller Bay, for the purpose of obtaining a series of the large 

 brown bears which inhabit the Alaska Peninsula west of the 

 tree line. The first bear was secured on the 24th, a fine 

 large female, with two cubs, one of which was secured alive 

 and sent to the New York Zoological Society, and is still 

 (July, 1904) living in the Society's Garden. The next, a fine 

 old male Ursus dalli gyas, was killed on the 29th, the skin 

 and entire skeleton being preserved ; it proved to be one of the 

 largest bears ever taken on the Alaska Peninsula, its approxi- 

 mate weight being 1600 pounds. By the evening o'f June 12 

 ten fine specimens had been obtained, seven of which were 

 fully adult; nine others were seen. This ended the bear 

 hunt, and preparations were immediately made to return to 

 Sand Point, which was reached on the evening of June 18. 



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