494 CONTRIBUTIONS TO A REVISION OF THE 
Hupsonran Orrer. Lutra ‘hudsonica (“ Lacépéde,” Desmarest). 
Plate XXIV; Figs. 1 and 2. 
Mustela lutra Linn., canadensis Schreber, Stugt., III, Pl. CX XVI, B. (dated 1778 on 
title-page, but, according to Sherborn, the text of Vol. III was published in 1777 
and this plate in 1776). 
Mustela (lutra) canadensis Kerr, Linn. An. Kingd., 1, 1792, p. 173 (see Thomas, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. Lond., 1889, p. 197, and Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. N. Hist., VII, 1895, 
p- 188). 
“ Mustela hudsonica Lacép.[éde],” Desmarest, Nouv. Dict. d’ Hist. Nat., XIII, 1803, p. 
384 ; (Wow. Hd.) 1817, p. 219. 
Lutra canadensis J. Sabine, App. Frankl. Jour., 1823, p. 653, and of nearly all subse- 
quent authors (not L. canadensis F. Cuvier, Dict. Sci. Nat., 1823, p. 242; see O. 
Athomasse/ ace spall): 
Lutra hudsonica F. Cuvier, Suppl. Buff., 1, 1831, p. 194; Merriam, NV. Amer. Fauna, 
No. 5, 1891, p. 82. 
Lataxina mollis Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus., 1843, p. 70. 
Lutra destructor Barnston, Canad. Nat. and Geolog., VIII, 1863, p. 147, F igs. 1 to 6. 
Type Locality.—“ Ou la trouve au Canada sur les bords de la mer.” 
Geographic Distribution—Northern North America from the Arctic ocean south- 
ward into the United States and from the Atlantic ocean to the Cascade mountains ; 
intergrading southeastwardly into subspecies /ataxina F. Cuvier and vaga Bangs, south- 
centrally into subspecies soronw Rhoads, and westwardly into subspecies pacifica Rhoads.* 
Color (taken from two specimens in the Bangs collection, No. 5638, yg. ad. 3, 
Annapolis, Nova Scotia, November 23, 1896, and No. 4190, ad. 2, Upton, Me., Octo- 
ber 25, 1895).—Above, dark seal brown from nose to tip of tail, darkest posteriorly, 
below from breast to tail between broccoli and vandyke brown in the Nova Scotia speci- 
men and between seal and yandyke brown in the Maine specimen. Head and neck 
below a line running from nose to lower base of ear and base of foreleg light Isabella 
color anteriorly darkening on lower neck to wood brown in the Nova Scotia animal. In 
the Maine specimen the neck is Prout’s brown. Feet, legs and tail corresponding to 
darker shades of upper and lower body. A summer specimen from New Brunswick 
is dark, vandyke brown, but little paler below than on back, and darker than winter 
specimens of /ataxina from Maryland. 
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* The otters of Louisiana and Mississippi are stated by furriers to be very dark and light-pelted, resembling South 
Florida and Gulf-coast skins. No specimens having been examined, they are referred to vaga. 
