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NOKTH AMEKICAN FAUNA. 



[no. 1:7. 



Armstrong records the species from Franklin Bay, Avhere one Avas, 

 seen swimming ; ^ from Prince of Wales Strait, where one was seen 

 March 29, 1851 ; ^ and from near Prince Albert Cape, Banks Land, 

 where it was common August 19, 1851.^ M'Dougall records it from 

 near Cape Mecham, southern part of Prince Patrick Island, where 

 two were seen in the spring of 1853.^ Two seen at Camden Bay 

 in the autumn of the same year are recorded by Collinson.^ Kennedy 

 reported tracks of polar bears as numerous on the northern shore of 

 North Somerset.^ Sutherland recorded the species from the western 

 coast of North Devon, where several were seen late in May, 1851, 

 passing northward up the channel.^ He reported it also from Cape 

 Martyr ; Assistance Bay ; Cape De Haven ; and other points on Corn- 

 wallis Island.'^ M'Dougall found the animals numerous in the 

 summer of 1853 in Melville Sound between Cape Cockburn and 

 Baker Island/ McCorniick noted one August 10, 1852, at Beechey 

 Island, and saw tracks later in the month on the shore of North 

 Devon near Cape Osborn.^" Gilder reported three killed by the Es- 

 kimo in October, 1879, on King William Land near Terror Bay.'>^ 



Russell reports the species from Herschel Island, where he obtained 

 skins and skulls, and where the species was said sometimes to gather 

 by scores. He was informed also that a few years since one of the 

 animals penetrated inland as far as Fort McPherson, a very unusual 

 circumstances for this maritime species.^ J. M. Bell writes me that 

 during his explorations to the northeast of Great Bear Lake in 

 August, 1900, one was seen near Dismal Lake. Hanbury, during 

 his journey along the Arctic coast early in the summer of 1902, 

 did not meet w^ith any polar bears. According to the Eskimo, the 

 animals were scarce near Ogden Bay, but were numerous on Corona- 

 tion Gulf later in the season. They were stated to be numerous on 

 Lind Island during the winter."^ Darrell writes me that the natives 

 state that the animals do not come to the coast until the ice breaks 

 up in August. MacFarlane states that during his residence at Fort 

 Anderson he annually received a few skins of this bear from the 



« Narrative Discovery Northwest Passage, p. 202, 1857. 

 6 Ibid., p. 304, 1857. 

 c Ibid., p. 391, 1857. 



^ Voyage of the Resolute to Arctic Regions, p. 292, 1857. 



e Journal of H. M. S. Enterprise, p. 302, 1889. 



f Narrative Second Voy. Prince Albert, p. 150, 1853. 



Journ. Voy. to Baffin Bay, II, p. 88, 1852. 

 ^ Ibid., I, p. 397, II, 138, 141, 127, etc., 1852. 

 * Voyage of the Resolute, p. 266, 1857. 

 j McCormicIv's Voyages, II, pp. 49, 120, 1884. 



Schwatlia's Search, p. 192, 1881. 

 ^ Expl. in Far North, pp. 244, 245, 1898. 



^'^ Sport and Travel in Northland of Canada, pp. 139, 152, 1904. 



