14 
Mammals 
By Gift 
Royal Canadian Mounted Police, through the Commissioner’s Office, Ottawa. 
1 barren ground caribou, in summer coat, with skull and leg bones, 1 
Arctic hare, 1 tundra weasel, collected by Staff Sergt. J. E. F. Wight, 
Chesterfield inlet, Keewatin district, N.W.T.; 1 skull of red fox, col- 
lected by Corporal J. Robinson, at Reliance, east end of Great Slave 
lake, N.W.T.; 1 male polar caribou ( Rangifer arcticus pearyi ), skin with 
complete skeleton, 1 Arctic fox ( Alopex lagopus), skin w r ith skeleton, and 
3 skulls of same, 2 Ellesmere Island Arctic hare ( Lepus arcticus mon- 
strabilis) ; skins and skulls, collected by Corporal H. Kearney at Craig 
harbour, Ellesmere island. 
National Parks of Canada, Department of the Interior, Ottawa: 5 specimens 
of Rocky Mountain cougar ( Felis concolor hippolestes) , 1 male adult, 1 
female adult, 1 male subadult, 1 male and 1 female half-grown cubs, 
skins and skulls, with 2 adult skeletons complete, collected by Ed. R. 
(“ Cougar ”) Lee, special predatory animal hunter, in Banff National 
park, Alberta, under direction of Mr. P. J. Jennings, Park Superintendent, 
from November 11, 1935, to January 1, 1936. 
Harry Snyder, Champlain Oil Products Company, Montreal, Que.: habitat 
group of wood buffalo ( Bison bison athabascae) and northern timber 
wolves ( Canis lycaon occidentalis) , collected by Harry Snyder expeditions 
of 1934-35. Mounting, backgrounds, and accessories done at James L. 
Clark Studio, New York, and the whole presented to the National Museum; 
4 Rocky Mountain wapiti ( Cervus canadensis ), 2 bulls, 1 cow, 1 calf from 
Prairie river, northeastern British Columbia; 3 black-tailed white sheep 
( Ovis dalli ), 2 old rams, 1 young ewe, from Nahanni mountains, Mackenzie 
district, N.W.T.; 1 barren ground caribou ( Rangifer arcticus), from east 
of Great Slave lake, N.W.T., collected in 1935. 
Dr. Ivan W. Parnell, Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Macdonald 
College, Que.: small mammals sent in for determination after partial 
dissection and examination for ecto- and endo-parasites ; skin and skulls 
salvaged for museum purposes as follows: 1 mink, 1 weasel, New Bruns- 
wick; 3 varying hares, 1 muskrat, 1 chipmunk, 2 woodchucks, from lake 
Timiskaming, Que.; 1 porpoise (skeleton), gulf of St. Lawrence; 1 cot- 
tontail rabbit from near Macdonald College, Que.; 2 Labrador collared 
lemmings from Belcher islands, Hudson bay; 1 cottontail rabbit from 
Huntingdon county, Que.; 1 raccoon from north of Port au Chene, Que.; 
3 Dawson red-backed mice from Aklavik, Mackenzie district, N.W.T. 
F. D. Burkholder, Ottawa, Ontario: 1 skin of silver fox, from Burkholder fur 
farm, mounted for exhibition in museum. 
H. U. Green, Dauphin, Manitoba: 1 red squirrel, 3 grey chipmunks ( Tamais 
striatus griseus) , collected on Vermilion river, near Dauphin ; 1 lower molar 
of bison, found in valley of Valley river, near Ashville, Dauphin district, 
near Dauphin, Manitoba. 
John C. Shelford, Wistaria, B.C.: 15 mammals, skins with skulls (4 cinereous 
shrews, 1 mountain water shrew, 2 Richardson’s flying squirrels, 2 bushy- 
tail wood rats, 1 least weasel, 2 red squirrels), 
Kenneth Racey, Vancouver, B.C.: 2 Vancouver Island marmots ( Marmota 
vancouverensis) , 2 Vancouver red squirrels (Sciurus hudsonicus van- 
couverensis ) . 
Major Allan Brooks, Okanagan Landing, B.C.: 2 pikas ( Ochotona princeps 
cuppes ), topotypes, from Falls creek, Monashee mountains; 2 little brown 
bats ( Myotis ). 
Dr. R. E. DeLury, Ottawa: 1 male New York weasel, in the flesh. 
E. C. Pow T elI, Ottawa, Ontario: 1 big brown bat, in the flesh. 
W. E. Saunders, London, Ontario: 3 rufescent woodchucks, in the flesh. 
Elgin R. S. Hall, Kenora, Ontario: 2 red squirrels, in the flesh, from Lake ot 
the Woods region. 
Ronald W. Smith, Ottawa, Ontario: 4 red squirrels, 1 woodchuck. 
Dr. A, R. Cahn, Urbana, Illinois: 1 cinereous shrew, 1 red-backed mouse, 
from Quetico, Ontario. 
C. M. Barbeau, Ottawa, Ontario: 1 big brown bat, in the flesh. 
