208 NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. [no. 27. 



Barren Grounds in the summer of 1890, noted the first traces of this, 

 animal on the shores of Lac du Mort, a short distance north of Great 

 Slave Lake, near longitude 112°. These were winter signs; the ani- 

 mals had since gone northward.* Russell states that one was killed 

 near the Indian camps about 150 miles northeast of Fort Rae late in 

 March, 1894, and brought to him as a specimen rare for the region.^ 

 It sometimes, however, occurs near Fort Rae in winter. In the re- 

 gion to the eastward and northeastward of Athabaska Lake, ex- 

 plored by him in 1893 and 1894, J. B. Tyrrell states that the Arctic 

 hare " was found to range everywhere throughout the Barren Lands 

 from the edge of the woods northward, but it was nowhere found in 

 any abundance." ^' J. M. Bell informs me that during his explorations 

 about Great Bear Lake in the summer of 1900, he found Arctic hares 

 common between Great Bear Lake and the lower Coppermine, and on 

 the eastern shore of the lake south to Eda Travers Bay. Hanbury 

 states that the Arctic hare occurs on Thelon or Ark-i-linik River ; ^ he 

 also mentions two killed a short distance south of Ogden Bay, Arctic 

 coast, on May 8, 1902; ^ and early in June of the same year he found 

 the species common on Melville Sound, Arctic coast. ^ One killed near 

 the same place about June 10 contained five large embryos which 

 would have been born in a fortnight.^' 



MacFarlane states that only a few Arctic hares were observed dur- 

 ing his summer and winter journeys in the far north, and that but 

 three specimens were secured during his five years' residence at Fort 

 Anderson.'' In notes sent to the National Museum from Lac du 

 Brochet post. Reindeer Lake, through MacFarlane, the Arctic hare 

 is said to inhabit the country not far to the northward of Reindeer 

 Lake. 



Felis hippolestes Merriam. Rocky Mountain Cougar. 



The mountain lion " is known to the Indians who visit Fort Liard 

 and is called by them E-wed-sie. They state that they seldom see the 

 animal, but occasionally see its tracks, and that it has been known to 

 kill moose. The species was reported to me also from the neighbor- 

 hood of Fort Nelson. 



J. S. Edmonton reported seeing the tracks of one on two occasions 

 near Boiler Rapid and Grand Rapid on the Athabaska, one winter 

 during recent years, he thinks in 1897. J. W. Milne gives several 



« Ottawa Nat., VII, p. 108, 1893. 

 » Expl. in Far North, p. 247, 1898. 



cAnn. Rept. Can. Geol. Surv., IX (new ser.), p. 166F, 1898. 



Sport and Travel in Northland of Canada, p. 14, 1904. 

 ^ Ibid., p. 136, 1904. 

 f Ibid., p. 159, 1904. 

 s Ibid., p. 161, 1904. 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXVIII, p. 739, 1905. 



