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MAMMALS. 



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In the early autumn of 1895 J. Alden Loring found red squirrels 

 common throughout the Jasper House region and took specimens at 

 several localities. He observed large piles of spruce cones which the 

 animals had collected for T^-inter use. as well as quantities of mush- 

 rooms acctimulated on the branches of trees near their nests. In one 

 place about a half bushel of mushrooms were thus deposited near a 

 single nest. In 1896 he found the species common 15 miles south 

 of Henry House. July 3 to 21 ; along his route between Jasper House 

 and Smoky Eiver, Atigust 20 to October 8: and in the mountains 

 west of Henry House later in October. Specimens taken by Loring 

 in this region, mainly in 1895, were recorded by Allen, under the 



Fig. 14. — Pile of scales of cones of white spruce, collected by red squirrel iSciiirus hud- 

 sonicus). Fort Simpson. March. 1904. 



name S. h. haileyL from the following localities: Banff, 2; Edmon- 

 ton, 1; Jasper House, 6; Cache Picot [Pecotte]. 3; Corral (near 

 Jasper House), 1; Henry House, 1: Muskeg Creek, 3.« They are in 

 the rufous phase of coloration, and apparently are not separable from 

 typical // udsonicus. 



Ross listed specimens from Big Island and Fort Simpson;^ and 

 Allen specimens from Fort liae. Fort Simpson, Fort Liard, Fort 

 Good Hope, and Fort Anderson.^ T^a-rell states that the species was 



« Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., X, p. 262, 1898. 

 ^ CaD. Xat. and Geol., VI, p. 441, 1861. 

 Monographs N. A. Rodentia, pp. 691, 692, 1877. 



