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animals are very destructive to such garden produce as is raised 

 there.'^ Allen records specimens from Salt Eiver. Fort Eesolution. 

 Fort Simj^son. Fort Rae. and Fort Liard.'^ A specimen from Fort 

 Simpson, taken by B. R. Eoss. May 8. I860, agrees very well with 

 specimens from Great Slave Lake and Slave Eiver. and differs 

 markedly from the Xahanni ^Mountain series of E. caniaps. 



Tyrrell found chipmunks, probably of this form, in the country 

 southeast of Athabaska Lake in the summer of 1892/ 



Eutamias borealis caniceps Osgood. Gray-headed Chipmunk. 



While collecting ou Blount Tha-on'-tha. at the junction of the 

 Mackenzie and North Xahanni rivers, about the middle of July. 

 1903. Alfred E.Preble and Merritt Cary found chipmunks inhabit- 

 ing the mountain to its summit. They were shy and rather uncommon 

 and were difficult to secure. Four specimens in worn pelage, taken 

 July 11 and IT, agree perfectly with a large series of E. caniceps 

 from various points on the upper Yukon. E. caniceps differs from 

 E. horeaUs in several particulars, the gray-fringed tail being its most 

 conspicuous character, but the two forms probably intergrade. 



During my trip down the ^lackenzie in the summer of 1901 I saw 

 a single individual in a " brule ' near the base of the same mountain 

 on June 1. and one of my canoemen saw one on the right bank of the 

 Mackenzie near Blackwater Eiver on June 9. 



Sciurus hudsonicus Erxleb^en. Hudson Bay Eed Squirrel. 



This species is abundant nearly throughout the wooded parts of 

 the Athabaska and Mackenzie region. During our trip in 1901 a 

 series of 50 specimens was taken, from the following localities : 

 Athabaska Eiver. ()0 miles above Grand Eapid. 1: Fort Chipewyan 

 (including the several camps near by). 30: Slave Eiver (mouth of 

 Peace). 1; Smith Landing. 1; Fort Smith. 7: Fort Eesolution. 5; 

 Great Slave Lake (mouth of Xorthern Arm). 1: Fort Eae. 1. In 

 this series the rufous phase, which characterizes by far the larger part 

 of a series taken in 1900 between Xorway House and Hudson Bay. 

 is absent, and the tails with two exceptions are edged with yellowish 

 gray, this character being very conspicuous. Among the large series 

 taken in the vicinity of Fort Chipewyan. May 20 to June 5, 1901, 

 only some half dozen are in the summer pelage, the majority being 

 in transition from winter to summer coats. The species was abun- 

 dant, especially at our camp near Point La Brie. 12 miles northeast of 

 the post. Here their nests were very numerous in the spruces and 



'■ Monographs N. A. Rodentia, p. S02, 1S77. These notes may refer in part 

 to Eutamias caniceps. 

 ^ Ibid.; p. 805, 1877. 



''Ann. Kept. Can. Geo!. Snrv., A'lII (new ser.), p. 14D, 1896. 



