No. 379.] THE MAMMALS OF LABRADOR. 505 
48. VULPES PENNSYLVANICA subsp.? Red fox. 
Common throughout the whole of Labrador from the St. 
Lawrence to Hudson Strait. 
Six skulls in Bangs’s collection, obtained by Sornborger at 
Hopedale and Okak. One wretched skin in National Museum, 
Washington, collected at Kokwak River, Ungava, by Turner. 
The Labrador red fox is not true V. pennsylvanica, but until 
I have seen material enabling me to study its external charac- 
ters, I am unwilling to refer it definitely to any form. 
49. CANIS ALBUS Joseph Sabine. Arctic wolf. 
Canis lupus — albus Joseph Sabine. Franklin's Narra- 
tive. Appendix, p. 655. 1823. 
Occasionally taken in northern barren grounds, Low. 
50. CANIS OCCIDENTALIS Richardson.! Timber wolf. 
Canis lupus, occidentalis Richardson. F. B. A. Mamm. 
p. 60. 1829. 
According to Low, the timber wolf is now very rare in the 
southern wooded region, owing to the extermination of the 
woodland caribou. It is still common in the barrens and semi- 
barrens of the north. : 
One skull in Bangs’s collection from Hopedale, collected 
by Sornborger.? 
51. Lynx canaDEnsIs (Geoff.). Canada lynx. 
Felis canadensis. ‘Geoff. Var. Mus.” 
Common within the wooded area from the Atlantic coast to 
Hudson Bay, Low. 
1T use Richardson’s name, Canis occidentalis, for the timber wolf of eastern 
North America, not that I feel sure it is the name that will eventually stand for 
that animal, but in the confused state of the nomenclature of our large wolves 
I see no other course to follow at present. Canis griseus Sabine cannot be used, 
as it is preoccupied by the Canis griseus Boddaert, 1784, one of the synonyms of 
the gray fox, Urocyon cinereo-argentatus. 
The Eskimo dog, Canis familiaris, var. borealis Desmarest, is included by 
Low in his list. Although in a semi-wild state for a part of the year, the Eskimo 
dog does not seem to me entitled to a place in the list of the mammals of 
Labrador. 
