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The account fent along with it from Severn 

 River fays, that thefe white foxes are filly, 

 inoffenfive animals -, and are known to (land 

 by, whilfr. a trap is baited for them, into 

 which they put their heads immediately : they 

 will, when pinched by hunger, devour thofe 

 of their own kind, which are already caught 

 in thefe traps. But the mod curious cir- 

 cumftance is, their migration to the North- 

 ward and the Eaftern coafts of the bay; for 

 though a few of them are caught every year 

 near York fort and Churchill river, yet, once 

 in three or four years, they come- in great 

 numbers; and feveral hundred of their furrs 

 are fent to England in that plentiful feafons, 

 which always begins in November, and ends 

 in April. The fpecimen fent is full grown, 

 and its furr quite in feafon. 



2. Lesser Otter. Penn. Svn. Quadr. p. 239. n. 

 174. Muflela Lutreola Linn. Syft. Nat. 66. Faun. 

 Suec. N° 13. 

 Severn River. 



I am ftill dubious, whether this animal ought 

 to be looked upon as the fame with the leffer 

 otter of Europe. and Alia; many circum- 

 ftances feem to prove this identity; but fome, 

 fuch as the want of webs, which I could 

 not difcover between the toes, and the white 

 fpot on the neck, will not admit of it. I 

 have, therefore, fubjoined a defcription of this 

 creature at the end of this article. The na- 

 tives of Hudfon's Bay call this quadruped 

 Bbb 2 JackafTi ; 



