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Fort Good Hope gave an occasional skin as the result of 

 Indian trade with the Eskimos of the Anderson after the 

 Fort was abandoned in 1866. In 1886 . Fort McPherson 

 turned out three and Good Hope three also. In 1887 the 

 former gave eleven skins and the latter one. In 1889 Fort 

 McPherson had one, Rampart House one, and Lac du Bro- 

 chet, Reindeer Lake, traded seven skins from its northern 

 inland Eskimos. Sir James C. Ross obtained three examples 

 of this fox on the shores of Boothia. Parry secured several, 

 and although Armstrong and Kellett, of the Resolute, each 

 have about fifty foxes in their game lists, which have been 

 considered as white, one or more of them may have been blue. 

 ISTares, as above stated, observed a " mottled " specimen, 

 while Greely writes that eighteen of the twenty secured by 

 him on Grinnell Land were free from any sign or mark of 

 white, red, or yellow, and that all of them were smaller in 

 size and lighter in weight than the twelve of his captured 

 dozen of V. lagopus. McClintock, however, shot a prime 

 blue fox while drifting in the Fox with the pack-ice in the 

 winter of 1857-58, although 130 geographical miles from 

 the nearest land. It was very fat, having probably lived on 

 dovekies. McGlintock often observed tracks of the Arctic 

 fox following the polar bear for discarded seal scraps. 



Wolverine — Caeca jou — GmIo luscus (Linnaeus). 



This comparatively powerful and very destructive animal 

 is to be met with all over the northern continent to and along 

 the shores of the Polar Ocean. Although Doctor Armstrong 

 does not have the wolverine in his list of observed mammals, 

 yet several Arctic explorers have either seen the animal or 

 traces thereof in very high latitudes. A skull, minus the 

 lower jaw, was picked up on Melville Island, latitude 75 

 north. Sir James Ross found it abundant on Boothia Felix. 

 He received skins of two adult and two young wolverines 

 from the Eskimos. Another was captured in winter on 



