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head of Bear Creek. I have designated them as Martes caurina, 

 although they are not typical of that form as represented by speci- 

 mens in the Museum collection from Vancouver Island, British Colum- 

 bia. Our specimens show both summer and winter pelages and in 

 both instances the markings of the throat and under surface are not 

 an orange red, as in the Vancouver specimens, but more of a yel- 

 low, and the whole body color is much paler. They also differ from 

 the Vancouver specimens in having the metaconid of the lower car- 

 nassial more distinct. A female taken at Crescent City is de- 

 scribed by Merriam (1890, p. 27) as being of a uniform light seal 

 brown with yellowish markings. It thus appears that that indi- 

 vidual together with our specimens represents an extreme southern 

 type of Martes caurina. 



Our no. 13772, male, in fresh fall pelage, has the center of 

 the back raw umber shading to tawny olive on the sides; underfur 

 wood brown. The underparts are tawny olive sprinkled with white 

 hairs; markings of the throat, deep chrome. The ears are drab 

 with a whitish edge; the nose Vandyke brown. The front feet shade 

 from Prouts brown to bistre. The tail is darker than the back; 

 the brush seal brown. In another specimen, with worn pelage, the 

 underfur of the back shows in patches vandyke and wood brown, 

 and the throat markings have faded to maize yellow. 



Our first specimen was taken at Jackson Lake at the foot of a 

 rock slide on the east side of the lake. It was caught only by the 

 side pad of one front foot, but so securely that the trap held in 

 spite of the fact that the animal had gotten down below the rock 

 where the trap was set and had crawled into a hole. At Rush 

 Creek we caught one in a trap set under a big log in a dense grove 

 of firs on the sidehill near a small stream, and the other two, evi- 

 dently a pair, close together, out of six traps we had set up the 

 canon of a small stream leading into a lake. Here also the timber 

 was dense. At Bear Creek we found martens in much the same situa- 

 tion among the timber and near water and I had the pleasure of 

 seeing one running along a log, but he saw me first and his disappear- 

 ance was rapid. 



Martes pennanti pacifica (Rhoads) 

 Pacific Fisher 

 Knowles reported one day at Helena that a fisher had been 

 around to all his traps, which were set on a ridge, and eaten the 



