Mammals taken Along the Alaska Highway

by Rollin H. Baker

Specimens examined.—Total 2, as follows: Alaska: Yerrick Creek, 21 mi. W and 4 mi. N Tok Junction, 1. Yukon Territory: 2 mi. W Teslin River, 2400 ft., 16 mi. S and 56 mi. E Whitehorse, 1.

Remarks.—Alcorn found little evidence of porcupines along the highway. The female from the Teslin River was found under a building. The female from Yerrick Creek was in dense underbrush in a spruce forest and weighed 20 pounds.

Canis latrans incolatus Hall

Coyote

Canis latrans incolatus Hall, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 40:369, November 5, 1934. (Type from Isaacs Lake, 3000 ft., Bowron Lake region, British Columbia, Canada.)

Specimens examined.—Total 2, as follows: Yukon Territory: 25 mi. NW Whitehorse, 1. British Columbia: Buckinghorse River, 94 mi. S Fort Nelson, 1.

Canis lupus pambasileus Elliot

Wolf

Canis pambasileus Elliot, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 18:79, February 21, 1905. (Type from Susitna River, region of Mount McKinley, Alaska.)

Canis lupus pambasileus Goldman, Jour. Mamm., 18:45, February 14, 1937.