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Order CAENIVORA. 



Family CANIDiE. 



ALASKAN TIMBEE WOLF. 



Canis pambasileus. 



Canis pambasileus, Elliot, Proe. Biol. Soe. Washington, yol. xyiii. p. 79, 

 1905. 



The general colour varies from almost black to a mixture of 

 brownish black and white. No. 19. 7. 15. 5 is a veiy dark specimen, 

 the entire coat being a deep sooty black ; in No. 19. 7. 15. 4 the 

 coat is very much lighter in colour, more as in nuhilus*. 



Typical locality, Sushitna River, Mount McKinley, Alaska. 



444-445 — 19. 7. 15. 4-5_. Skins, motmted. 1906. South fork of 

 MaoMillan Eiyer, Yukon Territory. 



Family MUSTELID^. 



Subfamily LUTRIN^. 

 OTTEE. 



LtJTBA LtTTBA. 



Mustela lutra, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, vol. i. p. 45,-1758; ed. 12, vol. i. 



p. 66, 1766. 

 Lutra vulgaris, Erxleben, Syst. Eegn. Anim. vol. i. p. 448, 1777. 

 Lutra lutra, Lataste, Actes Soo. Linn. Bordeaux, vol. xzzviii. p. 34, 1884. 



446 —19. 7. 15. 12 (female). Skin, monnted. August, 1894. Looh 

 •Spelvie, near Loohbuie, Isle of Mull. 



* Canis nubilus, Say, Long's Exped. Rooky Mountains, English ed. vol. i. 

 pp. 155 and 333, 1823 ; Amer. ed. vol. i. p. 169, 1823. 



