190S.] 



MAMMALS. 



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that the animal was met with throughout their trip through the 

 Barren Groimds. 



In 1896 J. Alden Loring obtained a skull in the mountains 15 

 miles south of Henry House, and reported it rather common among 

 the mountains between Jasper House and Smoky River in the early 

 autumn. 



Odobaenus obesus (lUiger). Pacific T\"alrus. 



MacFarlane states that the walrus was formerly niunerous between 

 Point Barrow and Cape Bathurst. On several occasions during his 

 trij^s to Franklin Bay in 1862 to 1865. he observed a few on the ice 

 pack. The Anderson River Eskimo frequently brought to Fort 

 Anderson articles made from walrus ivory, and the covering of their 

 boats was ustially made from its hide." 



During later years the species, of course, has greatly decreased in 

 numbers, but I have no data regarding its present range or compara- 

 tive numbers. 



Obobaenus rosmariis (Linn.). Atlantic Walrus. 



Walruses, probably referable to the Atlantic form, have been re- 

 corded from a number of points as far west as Wellington Channel 

 and the western extremity of Barrow Strait. J. C. Ross states that 

 the animal was occasionally seen in the northern part of Prince Re- 

 gent Inlet. Sutherland states that about a dozen were seen on Sep- 

 tember 11, 1850. between Griffith Island and Cornwallis Island.^ He 

 records also that some were seen by Goodsir in the spring of 1851 

 near the north shore of Cornwallis Island: others were seen by Cap- 

 tain Penny May 17. 1851. near Cape Surprise: in June, 1851, near 

 Point Decision; and in Queen Victoria Channel north of Barmg 

 Island.^ 



Phoca vitulina. Linn. Harbor Seal. 



Parry records that one was killed by the crew of the Griper off Mel- 

 ville Island on August 9, 1820 ; ^ Armstrong records one killed on 

 Jidy 23, 1852, at Mercy Bay, Banks Land, during the voyage of the 

 Incestigator ; ^ Sutherland records one shot March 8, 1851, near the 

 -outhern extremity of Cornwallis Island.^ Capt. J. W. Mills informs 

 me that he has seen articles of clothing, made from the skins of this 

 species, in the possession of Eskimo at Fort McPherson. Though 



« Proc. U. S. Nat. Miis., XXVIII, p. 725, 1905. 

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

 ^ Journ. Voyage to Baffin Bay, I, p. 106, 1852. 

 ^ Ibid., II, pp. 106, 133, 150, 176, 1852. 

 ^.Journal Parry's First Voyage, p. 239, 1821. 

 ^ Narrative Discovery Northwest Passage, p. .5.38. 1857. 

 Joiirn. Voynge to Baffin Bay, I, p. 504, 1852. 



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