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Procyon lotor Storr. Raccoon. Square Island. 

 Lutra- canadensis Sabine. Common along the whole 

 coast. 



Mephitis mephitica (Shaw). Rarely seen on the 

 southern coast. (Stearns.) 



Gulo luscus (Linn.). Wolverine. Generally distrib- 

 uted along the coast. (Stearns.) 



Putorius vison (Schreber). The Mink is common 

 along the coast. 



Putorius vulgaris (Erxl.). This and the Ermine are 

 common everywhere. 



Putorius erminea (Linn.). 



Mustela americana Turton. The American Sable or 

 Marten is common. 



Mustela pennanti Erxl. The Fisher is occasionally 

 seen in Southern Labrador. (Stearns.) 



Vulpes fulvus Linn. The Red Fox occurred com- 

 monly at Stagg Bay, with the following species of the 

 silver and black fox. The former is not uncommon, the 

 black very rare. 



Vulpes lagopus Linn. The " Blue Fox " is exceed- 

 ingly rare about the mouth of Hamilton Inlet. An old 

 hunter told me he had seen but three of them within a 

 period of forty years. Their fur is shorter, and the tail 

 shorter and more bushy than the " Patch Fox." On a 

 high isolated rock much frequented by sea-birds, I no- 

 ticed a Patch Fox with a murre's &gg in its mouth. It is 

 very tame and unsuspicious on the outer islands, where it 

 lives evidently by robbing the nests of sea-birds. It is 

 the common statement of the hunters that the different 

 varieties of this species are found in the same litter. 



