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rule, but if the season is backward, not until June. After they 
have weaned their young they begin to get fat. Thus while the 
bucks are chasing about and getting poorer the does are putting 
on fat and getting ready for the winter. Sometimes the bucks 
fight as late as Christmas and when the hard spring months come 
they are so weak that they are only able to crawl off somewhere 
to die. A reliable hunter reported seeing in one day’s walk the 
carcasses of about fifteen deer that had died from starvation 
and exposure during the winter.’’ 2 
Stephens records them as fairly abundant on Baranof Island 
at Red Bluff and Rodman bays and at Peril Strait. At Hooniah 
and at Idaho Inlet, Chichagof Island, Dixon found them searce. 
Three were seen on the mountain tops near Port Frederick the 
first of August, at which time their horns were still in the velvet. 
Sciurus hudsonius petulans Osgood. Glacier Red Squirrel. 
The series of sixteen from Glacier Bay agrees well with topo- 
types in the Biological Survey collection. 
Stephens gives the following notes on those observed at Gla- 
cier Bay: 
‘“‘Common; notes are a grasshopper-like ‘churr,’ similar to 
those of the chickaree living in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of 
California. But few nests were seen in the spruces, but piles 
of scales from the spruce cones were plentiful. These were us- 
ually gathered about the bases of the larger trees and may have 
been produced by the destruction of the cones from those trees 
only. Many holes led through these piles of cones, which were 
probably entrances to the burrow. From these entrances many 
trails led away through the moss.’’ Dixon reports them rare on 
the west shore of the bay. 
Marmota vigilis, new species. Glacier Marmot. 
Type from west shore of Glacier Bay, Alaska; adult male, 
No. 418, Univ. Cal. Mus. Vert. Zool.; collected by Joseph Dixon, 
July 14, 1907; orig. No. 69. 
CHARACTERS.—Coloration variable, normally blackish, eriz- 
zled by an admixture of long white hairs everywhere except on 
occiput, which is black. Region of shoulders and rump uniform 
