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Type Locality. Okkak, Labrador. 
Formerly I thought that the marten of southern Labrador would 
rove to be true M. americana, but specimens sent me by Doane 
can L’Anse au Loup are M. a. brumalis, and I now doubt the ex- 
istence in Labrador of two forms. 
The Labrador subspecies is a fine large, dark-coloured mar- 
ten, and is generally distributed throughout the wooded regions. 
62. ~~ PENNANTII PENNANTII Erxl. Pennants’s marten; 
sher. 
Mustela pennantii Erxl. Syst. An., p. 479. 1777. 
Pennants’s marten, according to Low, rarely enters the south- 
western limits of Labrador, not occurring east of Mingan nor north 
of Mistassini. 
63. Ursus AMERICANUS Pallas. Black bear. 
Ursus americanus Pallas. Spicil. Zool., fase. XIV, p. 5. 1780. 
Ursus americanus sornborgerit Bangs. Amer. Nat., Vol. XXXII, 
p. 500. 1898. 
Type Locality. Okkak, Labrador. 
Of general distribution throughout Labrador, north to tree limit. 
At one time I thought the Labrador black bear was separable 
as a subspecies and named it W. a. sornborgeri, but since then I 
have examined a large number of additional skulls and find none 
of the characters on which I based the subspecies to hold good, 
most of these skulls being indistinguishable in size or in any other 
way from skulls from Nova Scotia, Maine, New Hampshire, etc., 
with which I compared them. 
In my former list I included Ursus richardsoni Swainson — the 
barren-ground bear — on the strength of reports that Low had of 
it from the Nascaupee Indians. Iam now inclined to discredit these, 
so far as Labrador is concerned. Indians everywhere have many 
traditions that persist in a remarkable manner, and often they are 
borrowed from tribes that live at a distance. I can find no evidence 
that the barren-ground bear occurs in the barrens of Labrador, and 
until it is actually known to be there it must be struck from a list 
of the mammals of Labrador. 
64. THALARCTOS MARITIMUS Linn. Polar bear; ice bear. 
Ursus maritimus Linn. Syst. Nat., Ed. XII, Vol. I, p. 70. 
1766. 
Low says the polar bear ranges south along the Atlantic coast of 
Labrador occasionally as far as the Strait of Belle Isle, and in 
Hudson Bay to Charleton Island. The species seldom goes far 
inland, except to produce its young. Sornborger told me that the 
polar bear is very common and resident in northern Labrador. 
Four skulls in Bangs’s collection, all obtained by Sornborger of 
the Eskimo at Hebron and Okkak. 
