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the Kenai Peninsula, namely, Marmota caligata, Microtus 

 operarius, and Sorex personatus. 



This is the third and last of the series of expeditions to 

 Alaska and northern British Columbia, organized under the 

 leadership of Mr. Andrew J. Stone, to secure Arctic mammals 

 and birds for this Museum. The means for this enterprise 

 were provided in 1901 by friends of the Museum (see this 

 Bulletin, XVI, 1902, p. 215), and the generous supporters of 

 this work have every reason to feel gratified with the results. 

 The Museum has by this means been placed in possession of 

 the finest series of the large game animals of subarctic Amer- 

 ica anywhere extant, besides several thousands of small mam- 

 mals, representing abundantly nearly all the species of the 

 regions visited. Material of the best character has been pro- 

 vided for groups of the big Alaska Brown Bear, .Alaska Black 

 Bear, Alaska Grizzly, the big Alaska Moose, two species of 

 Caribou, two species of Mountain Sheep, the Mountain Goat, 

 and the Sitka Deer. Among the smaller mammals several 

 new species were discovered, others previously little known 

 have been secured in large series, and the large number of 

 birds obtained has greatly enriched our ornithological collec- 

 tion. 



1. Alee 1 gigas Miller. ALASKA MOOSE. Six specimens, 

 including three adult males, an adult female, a two-year-old 

 male, and a male calf, taken in the rolling hilly country north 

 of Chugachik Bay, Sept. 25-Oct. 2. This series includes 

 " one of the largest and finest bulls ever secured on the Penin- 

 sula," the whole forming as complete a group for mounting 

 " as could be selected from a thousand." They were pre- 

 pared with special care, with a view to their use for this 

 purpose. 



2. Rangifer stonei Allen. STONE'S CARIBOU. No speci- 



1 According to Dr. T. S. Palmer (Index Generum Mammalium, 1904, p. 86) Alee, as 

 a generic name for the Old World moose (elk) dates from Frisch, 1775, thus antedating 

 the form Alces of Gray (1821) and of later authors, and also Blumenbach's use of Alee 

 (1799) for the extinct Irish Elk (Megaceros hibernicus Owen, 1844). Hence Paralces 

 Allen, 1902, is a synonym of Alee Frisch, 1775. 



