44 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
Putorius longicauda spadix Bangs. 
A tanned skin of a weasel given me by Mr. L. W. Besserer of 
North Bay has been identified by Mr. Outram Bangs as the dark 
eastern race of Putorius longicaucla , a species not hitherto recorded 
from any point east of Minnesota. Mr. Besserer trapped this speci¬ 
men on the bank of the Chippewa Creek, a few miles north of 
North Bay, and at once recognized it as a very different animal from 
any others he had ever seen. 
Mr. Brooks writes that he saw weasels very much larger than P. 
cicognani at Milton. It is doubtful whether these were P. longi- 
cauda or P. noveboracensis, but I am inclined to think they were 
the latter. 
Putorius rixosus Bangs. 
Mr. Bangs has recorded two least weasels taken at Moose 
Factory. 1 
At Nejiigon and Peninsula Harbor I was told of the occurrence 
of a very small weasel that turns entirely white in winter. 
Vulpes pennsylvanicus (Boddaert). 
The red fox is common at North Bay, Peninsula Harbor, and 
Nepigon. 
Common at Milton and Mount Forest (Brooks). 
Recorded by Capper from the region between York and Lake 
Simcoe. 
Canis nubilus Say. 
Wolves are probably found throughout the less inhabited parts of 
Ontario. I saw none, but heard numerous trustworthy reports of 
the animal’s occurrence in the country a few miles north of Lake 
Nipissing and on the north shore of Lake Superior. 
In 1830 Gapper recorded Canis ‘ griseus ’ on his own authority 
from the region between York and Lake Simcoe. 
Lynx ruffus (Giildenstadt). 
“ Wild cats still occur in large cedar swamps at Mount Forest” 
(Brooks). 
Note. — Both Canada-lynx and panther are doubtless to be found 
in Ontario, but I have no positive evidence of the occurrence of either. 
V arious species of seals and cetaceans probably reach the northern 
border of Ontario on James Bay. 
1 Proc. Biolog. Soc. Washington, 1896, vol. 10, p. 22. 
Printed April, 1897. 
