1911] Swarth: Alaska Expedition of 1909. 137 



■ abundant. On the Chiekamin River Hasselborg had a shot at 

 one, at a point some twenty miles up the river, where he heard 

 several howling in the night. Fresh sign was seen at Bradfield 

 Canal and on Zarembo Island. A wolf remained in the vicinity 

 of our camp at Mitkof Island during the whole of our stay at 

 that point; I heard him howling in the night, and saw fresh 

 tracks day after day, where he had followed me, making the 

 round of my small mammal traps. Once also a deer burst from 

 the woods near the camp, panting and panic stricken, and in 

 evident fear of some unseen pursuer. At Thomas Bay one was 

 heard howling, and his tracks seen almost daily along my line 

 of traps; and though the Mitkof wolf was too suspicious to 

 venture very near to the little mouse traps, this one was troubled 

 with no such fears, but carried off several with the animals they 

 held. Hasselborg reported seeing some wolf tracks at Port 

 Snettisham. There appeared to be no wolves on Coronation, 

 "Warren, and Duke Islands; on Annette and Gravina islands 

 we saw no sign; but our stay at these points was too short to 

 decide any such matters. No wolf sign was observed on Revil- 

 lagigedo, Etolin, or Wrangell islands, though they may occur on 

 all three. 



The one specimen secured is an old male, purchased from an 

 Indian who had caught it in a trap at Klawak Salt Lake, Prince 

 of Wales Island, on the morning of May 26 (no. 8321). He 

 stopped at our camp the same day and exhibited the skin, which 

 he had roughly removed, leaving the head, feet and tail 

 unskinned. It was the second he had caught during the winter. 



This animal is extremely dark colored, in general appearance 

 almost black. The whole head and muzzle is glossy black, with 

 a sprinkling of grayish, due partly to a mixture of white hairs, 

 and partly to the fact that some of the black hairs are white 

 basally. Back and legs are black, mixed with a few scattered 

 white hairs; the sides of the neck brownish, and of the body 

 dark gray, changing to dark brown on the middle of the abdomen. 

 The tail is black, and black tipped, but about the basal half of 

 the ventral surface is a dirty whitish color. The hair on the 

 soles of the feet is chestnut. That on the median line of the back 

 has not grown out to its full length, and the color of this part 



