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NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



[NO. 27. 



2 tons.'^ J. C. Eoss later reported the narwhal as abundant in Prince 

 Regent Inlet.^ Armstrong records one seen in the summer of 1850 

 near Cape Bathurst/ Sutherland states that Penny found the ani- 

 mals numerous about the middle of June, 1851, in Wellington Chan- 

 nel near Point Decision.'^ 



Delphinapterus catodon (Linn.). White Whale. 



This wide-ranging species occurs all along the northern coast, and 

 in the larger inlets among the islands nearly as far north as man has 

 penetrated. It is partially migratory, w^ithdrawing from the more 

 northern part of its range by the first of September, but the extent 

 of its migration is unknown. 



Mackenzie noted it at the mouth of the river since named for him, 

 when he first descended it.^ Franklin, during his second expedition 

 to the Arctic Sea, noted it near the same place in the summer of 1825. 

 In the summer of 1848 Richardson observed the species near Cape 

 Bathurst and in Franklin Bay.^' J. C. Ross recorded the beluga as 

 abundant in Prince Regent Inlet.'^ M'Clintock later states that one 

 was shot in August, 1859, at Port Kennedy.^ Fisher observed great 

 numbers on August 6, 1819, in Barrow Straits near Prince Regent 

 Inlet.-' Osborn observed the species on September 5, 1850, in Wel- 

 lington Channel near Cape Spencer. The animals were numerous 

 and w^ere moving southward, accompanied by their young.'^ 



Joseph Hodgson, of the Hudson Bay Company, informed me that 

 some years ago, while stationed at Fort McPherson, he saw two 

 individuals which had ascended Peel River to that point. 



Odocoileus virginianus macrounis (Rafinesque). Plains White-tailed 

 Deer. 



I was informed by J. S. Edmonton, an old hunter in the Athabaska 

 region, that within a few years a number of white-tailed deer have 

 been killed near Edmonton. 



Odocoileus hemionus (Rafinesque). Mule Deer. 



In the summer of 1895 J. Alden Loring reported seeing a doe of this 

 species at Jasper House ; he observed also many tracks in the vicinity 

 of Henry House. In 1896 he saw fresh tracks along a stream in the 



« Voyage of Discovery to Arctic Regions, p. 83, 1821. 



* Appendix to Ross's Second Voyage, p. xxii, 1835. 



^ Narrative Discovery Nortliwest Passage, p. 201, 1857. 

 ^ Journ. Voy. Baffin Bay, II, p. 150, 1852. 

 <^ Voyages to Frozen and Pacific Oceans, p. 64, 1801. 

 • f Narrative Second Expedition to Polar Sea, p. 35, 1828. 

 • ff Arctic Searching Expedition, II, pp. 269, 271, 1851. 

 Appendix to Ross's Second Voyage, p. xxii, 1835. 



* Voyage of Fox, p. 302, 1860. 



j Voyage of Discovery to Arctic Regions, p. 74, 1821. 

 ^Arctic Journal, p. 122, 1852. 



