. The American natural history : a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America . Natural history. WOODLAND CARIBOU 135 Woodland Caribou are not numerous anywhere in the Canadian Northwest Territories, for in all my travels for the Geological Survey of Canada, extending over the period from 1SS3 to 1898, I did not see a dozen of those animals, though on hundreds of different occasions I saw their great wide-spreading tracks. The only one I ever shot was feeding on a rocky hill, beside a stream that flows into the east side of Lake Winnipeg; and his head is now hanging
. The American natural history : a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America . Natural history. WOODLAND CARIBOU 135 Woodland Caribou are not numerous anywhere in the Canadian Northwest Territories, for in all my travels for the Geological Survey of Canada, extending over the period from 1SS3 to 1898, I did not see a dozen of those animals, though on hundreds of different occasions I saw their great wide-spreading tracks. The only one I ever shot was feeding on a rocky hill, beside a stream that flows into the east side of Lake Winnipeg; and his head is now hanging in the Museum of the Geological Survey, in Ottawa. "The smaller species of Caribou lives on the Barren Grounds during the summer. On the approach of winter most of the animals migrate est and value. To man}' Indian tribes, such as the Dog-Ribs and Yellow Knives, and to many of the Eskimo tribes also, it has been an important source of subsistence, both in food and clothing. It is so peculiarly a creature of treeless and in- hospitable regions, and is so independent of the conditions which are essential to the existence of all round-horned members of the Deer Family, that its desolate home has been inseparably con- nected with its popular name. Species may come, and species may go, but we hope that the brave and hardy Barren Ground Caribou will go on forever. It is natural that in any animal species which. antlers of creenland caribou (/?. groenlandicvs). Showing the form characteristic of the Barren Ground Caribou group. Specimen from the northwest coast of Greenland, in author's collection. southward to the edge of the forest, though some remain throughout the winter on the open barrens. "Twice, in 1893 and 1894,1 met what is known as 'the herd,' on its way southward, once on a good feeding ground, where hundreds of thou- sands were collected together, and again on a rough, rocky tract where the individual bands rarely exceeded a few hundred in number, and all were o
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