_Specimens examined._--Total number, 35, arranged by locality from
the western end of the north coast of Greenland, eastward and then
southward down the east coast. Unless otherwise indicated,
specimens are in the Universitetets Zoologisk Museum, Købnhavn,
Danmark.
Gap Valley, 7-1/4 mi. NE Cape Brevoort, 82 N, 59 20´ W, 1 (British
Mus.); Dragon Point, 1; Danmarks Havn (Fjeldene ved Baadskjeret,
1; lille Fjeld, 1; Lyservig, 1; harefjeldets, 4; Rypefjeldet, 1;
Baadskjeret, 1; Danmarkshavn, 3) 12; Christians Havn, 1 (not found
on map); Shannon Island, 4; Germania Havn, 2; Claveringoen, 1;
Carls Havn, 1; Myggbukta, 2 (British Mus.); Ymer[s] Island, 2
(Mus. Comp. Zool.); Kap Hoegh, Jamesonsland, 1 (Berlin Zool.
Mus.); Scoresby Sund, 3; Turner Sund, 4.
=Mustela erminea semplei= Sutton and Hamilton
Ermine
Plates 2, 3, 4, 9, 10 and 11
_Mustela arctica semplei_ Sutton and Hamilton, Ann. Carnegie Mus.,
21:79, February 13, 1932.
_Mustela arctica labiata_ Degerbøl, Rept. 5th Thule Exped., 2 (no.
4):25, 1935, type from Malugsitaq, Melville Peninsula, Canada.
_Mustela erminea semplei_, Hall, Journ. Mamm., 26:179, July 19,
1945.
_Type._--Male, subadult, skull and skin; no. 6470, Carnegie Mus.;
Coral Inlet, South Bay, Southampton Island, Canada; October 8,
1929; obtained by George Miksch Sutton, original no. 3M.
The skull has two holes in it: one is immediately above the left
canine, and the other (2 × 5.5 mm.) is 3 millimeters to the left
of the median line at the juncture of the frontal and parietal
bones. From this last mentioned hole a fracture extends back
halfway to the lambdoidal crest. The tip of the left upper canine
is broken off. Otherwise the skull is complete, and the teeth all
are present and entire. The skin is well made and in fresh white
winter pelage except for a trace of the old brown summer pelage on
the back, on the tail, on the anterior borders of the ears, and in
a spot 11 mm. long and 8 mm. wide on the nose.
_Range._--Baffin and Southampton islands, Melville Peninsula and
west side of Hudsons Bay as far south as Eskimo Point. See figure
25 on page 95.
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