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MAMMALS. 



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autumn of 1896 J. Alden Loring occasionally saw tracks of timber 

 TTolves in the country between Jasper House and Smoky River, and 

 heard one on Grand Cache River, September 5. They were reported 

 to him to be of large size and frequently black. 



The following extract, showing the numbers of skins of woodland 

 wolves collected by the Hudson's Bay Company, is quoted from 

 MacFarlane's recent paper : « 



From 1S5S to 1884, Athabasca District contributed 2,119 skins of the wood- 

 laud (black, gray, and white) wolf to the Loudon sales. For the outfits 1885 

 to 1889, it made a further addition of 339 skins. Between 1863 and 1884, in- 

 clusive, the district of Mackenzie River supplied a total of 1,880 skins of this 

 animal. Its quota in 1889 was only 49 skins. From 1862 to 1887, Fort Resolu- 

 tion, Great Slave Lake, gave 193, and in 1884, 10 skins. The posts of the upper 

 Peace River, with its lake stations transferred from Edmonton, sent in 48 wood- 

 land wolves in 1889. 



Canis occidentalis albus Sabine. Barren Ground Wolf. 



Xo specimens of this supposed species are available for study, but 

 the light color of the wolves of the Barren Grounds is probably suf- 

 ficient to Avarrant their consideration as a separate form. The name 

 Canis aJljus was based by Sabine on a very large light-colored in- 

 dividual killed at Fort Enterprise during the winter of 1820-21.^ 

 AVolves nearly white in color, but considerably smaller than the Fort 

 Enterprise sj^ecimen, were found to inhabit Melville Island by 

 Parry's party, and were seen almost daily during the winter.^ J. C. 

 Ross states that numbers were seen about the Isthmus of Boothia.^^ 

 During Back's expedition white wolves were seen near Artillery 

 Lake.^ Simpson recorded two seen August 21, 1838, at Cape Frank- 

 lin (Point Turnagain).^ Armstrong states that a wolf w^as seen 

 near Princess Royal Islands in February, 1851 '^^ and that many were 

 seen at Mercy Bay, Banks Land, during the winter of 1851-52.'^ 

 M'Dougall states that a pack of wolves was seen on Melville. Island 

 near Cape Russell in June, 1853;' one was seen on May 27, 1851, near 

 Cape Hotham, Cornwallis Island;-' M'Clintock reports that wolves 

 were observed in October, 1858, at Port Kennedy, and in May, 1859, 

 by Lieutenant Hobson on King William Land.^ Kennedy records 



rroc. r. S. Nat. Mns., XXVIII, p. 694, 1905. 

 ^ Narrative .Journey to Polar Sea, Appendix, p. 655, 1823. 

 ^ Suppl. to Appendix Parry's First Voyage, p. clxxxv, 1824. 

 ^ Appendix to Ross's Second Voyage, p. x, 1835. 



^ Narrative Arctic Laud Expedition to Great Fish River, p. 128, 1836. 



f Narrative Discoveries on North Coast of America, p. 294, 1843. 



f Narrative Discovery Northwest Passage, p. 300, 1857, 



^ Ibid., p. 484, 1857. 



^ Voyage of the Resolute, p. 295, 1857. 



■'■ Ibid., p. 402, 18.57. 



* Voyage of the Fox, pp. 186, 309, 1860. 



