A LIST OF THE MAMMALS OF LABRADOR. 
OUTRAM BANGS. 
In the Geological Survey of Canada, Annual Report, New 
Series, vol. viii, 1895, pp. 313 L. to 321 L., Mr. A. P. Low 
gives a “List of Mammalia of the Labrador Peninsula, with 
brief notes on their distribution, etc.” This list, appearing as 
it does in Mr. Low’s valuable report upon Labrador, and being 
based very largely upon his personal observations in the field, 
is of great importance, and it is much to be regretted that so 
many of the names used are archaic — often misleading. The 
volume did not appear until the summer of 1897, although 
probably Mr. Low’s list was written some time before that. 
The list, however, does not include several Labrador mammals, 
descriptions of which had appeared in print prior to 1895. 
It is with such corrections and additions that I deal princi- 
pally in the present paper, endeavoring to bring Mr. Low’s 
list up to date. Much is still to be learned of the Labrador 
mammals, and the present list is doubtless incomplete. Only 
one of the species given by Mr. Low is dropped, — the musk 
ox, — Mr. Low himself saying that it is extremely doubtful 
if it ever occurred in Labrador. I follow Mr. Low in including 
several other species that occur in southwestern Labrador 
only, as the moose, the fisher, and the skunk. Doubtless there 
are many more of this category. No material is available from 
southern Labrador, and the mammals of that region are little 
known. It is more than probable that most of the usual forms 
of the upper Canadian and lower Hudsonian faunas occur 
there. At Lake Edward, Quebec, I took such species as 
Microtus pennsylvanicus fontigenus, M. chrotorrhinus, Evotomys 
gapperi, Synaptomys fatuus, Peromyscus canadensis abietorum, 
Sorex hoyi, S. albibarbis, and Blarina brevicauda. Without 
doubt the ranges of many if not all of these extend along the 
shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and thus enter Labrador. 
Two mammals are added by me as new forms — the Labra- 
dor black bear and the marten of North Labrador. 
