Alaska field notes, v1299
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6/6. Gilmore 1931 Dicrostonyx (2) one specimen in the flesh + one dried skin at Severnaga. An Eskimo boy caught the former in a suite of tundra a quarter of mile back from the beach. The history of the other is unknown. Anyhow - they are scarce + may be encountered almost anywhere. Iugara, Point Hope, Alaska, Arctic Ocean I did not take any specimens here - they seem to be very scarce. The occasion- ally I ran across a native who knew the "white mouse" Aug. 24. Sept. 15 Unalaska Unalaska Is., Alaska, Alutuian Is. This there is a Dicro- stonyx from this island, I cannot locate a trace of it. No one here knows what it is and so far the traps have yielded none. Sept. 18 Ahoy! Caught one - No. 2137 - Female - four pairs teeth (1 incisal, 1 abdominal D, tincis + 1 axillary) - it was taken in a rock slide up under the high knife ridge at the head of Cascade Falls. Piles of excrement were common