1904.] Allen, Mammals from Alaska. 283 



not yet been made known. These specimens are referred to 

 it provisionally, in preference to adding a new name in this 

 very imperfectly known group. 



Summer specimens of hares of the L. americanus group 

 seem difficult to capture, and very few are yet extant in 

 museums. Mr. Anderson says of the present specimens: 

 ' The first rabbits seen on the Kenai Peninsula were those 

 taken on Sheep Creek in August. Here they had numerous 

 runways in the tall grass of the bottomland among the alders 

 and willows. I succeeded in shooting a number of young, 

 but did not secure any adults until Mr. Browne caught one 

 in a snare. Later two [young] adults were taken in a dry, 

 grass-grown flat near our 'Barabori' camp." At Moose Camp 

 (at timberline), although no specimens were secured, "the 

 number of runways was sufficient to show that they were 

 present in numbers, showing that they range both in lowland 

 and highland." 



1 6. Phoca richardsi (Gray). HARBOR SEAL. One speci- 

 men, young, with the.permanent dentition not fully developed. 



17. Vulpes alascensis Merriam. ALASKA RED Fox. Two 

 specimens, skins and skulls, male and female, Muller Bay, 

 June 2. Male, total length, 982; tail vertebrae, 445; hind 

 foot, 190. Female, 929, 394, 165. 



1 8. Vulpes kenaiensis Merriam. KENAI RED Fox. One 

 specimen, skin and skull, Kenai Peninsula (exact locality and 

 date not recorded). 



This species was originally described from a skull, and the 

 external characters do not appear to have as yet been de- 

 scribed. 



Compared with V. alascensis the coloration is much darker through- 

 out, .the golden fulvous of alascensis being replaced with dark rufous, 

 with much more and deeper black on the ears and feet, tail more 

 fringed with black and with a larger apical area of white ; lower back 

 varied with buffy gray; chin strongly dusky; throat and fore neck 

 superficially white, the fur basally blackish; posterior part of ventral 

 area superficially white, like the throat, the fur dingy gray basally; 



