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Eutamias merriami merriami (Allen) 
Eutamias merriami mariposce Grinnell 
Eutamias merriami pricei (Allen) 
Eutamias merriami kernensis Storer & Grinnell 
Eutamias merriami obscurus (Allen) 
Eutamias merriami meridionalis Nelson & Goldman 
Eutamias dorsalis dorsalis (Baird) 
Eutamias canescens Allen 
Eutamias dorsalis utahensis Merriam 
Biological Survey, Washington, D. C. 
GENERAL NOTES 
HOARY BAT IN VERMONT 
A live male specimen of the hoary bat {Nycteris cinerea) was picked up on the 
sidewalk at Woodstock, Vermont, June 20, 1921, and was presented to the writer 
for his private collection. This bat seems to be rare in Vermont in the breeding 
season although it must occur here during migrations. The only other specimen 
recorded as captured within the state was taken at Colchester, on Lake Cham- 
plain, October 12, 1842, and is now in the State museum at Montpelier. The 
writer and friends have watched for the hoary bat many evenings along mountain 
streams and lakes without success. On October 29, 1921, a large bat was seen 
flying over the marshes on a mountain lake in Wallingford, altitude 2300 feet. 
It was not shot as it would have been lost in the swale. The temperature had 
been below freezing on several occasions, and there was ice in some places when 
this bat was seen. The writer judged that none but a hoary bat would have 
showed the hardihood to be abroad at such a time. — George L. Kirk, Rutland, Vt, 
AN INSTANCE OF UNPROVOKED ATTACK BY A BROWN BEAR 
On August 25, 1921, 1 killed a moose while hunting on the headwaters of Sidney 
Creek, a tributary of the Nisutlin River, in Yukon Territory, Canada, and after 
butchering the same, returned to camp late in the evening. 
The following morning Mr. W. E. Rumble, his son Willard Rumble and myself, 
taking two dogs with us, left for the scene of the kill with the intention of bring- 
ing in the meat for camp use. The moose was killed in a fairly dense thicket of 
willows and upon nearing the spot where the carcass was located I pushed on 
ahead of my companions, who were followed by the two dogs, until I was per- 
haps fifty or sixty feet ahead of them, entering the thicket by way of a narrow 
game trail. I had progressed only a short distance into the thicket when I heard 
a crashing in the underbrush, followed by an exclamation from one of my com- 
panions, and upon looking back, beheld a medium size brown bear charging 
directly toward them along the edge of the thicket. Mr. Rumble was armed 
with a Winchester repeating rifle, but before he could throw a load into the 
chamber and shoot, the dogs had rushed out at the bear and he then withheld 
