. The Big game of North America [microform] : its habits, habitat, haunts, and charcteristics : how, when, and where to hunt it. Hunting; Hunting; Big game hunting; Big game hunting; Chasse; Chasse; Chasse au gros gibier; Chasse au gros gibier. T BIG OAME OF NORTH AMERICA. believe the animal would win could we find some way to i-educe the size of the wood-pile about one-half. Cuvier, Hearne, Griffith, and nearly all the Old World writers, also fell into the error of •; apposing the Glu'bton and Vv'olverine to differ in form anu character. Cones has crit'.cally compared the Eurojpean Glutton wi
. The Big game of North America [microform] : its habits, habitat, haunts, and charcteristics : how, when, and where to hunt it. Hunting; Hunting; Big game hunting; Big game hunting; Chasse; Chasse; Chasse au gros gibier; Chasse au gros gibier. T BIG OAME OF NORTH AMERICA. believe the animal would win could we find some way to i-educe the size of the wood-pile about one-half. Cuvier, Hearne, Griffith, and nearly all the Old World writers, also fell into the error of •; apposing the Glu'bton and Vv'olverine to differ in form anu character. Cones has crit'.cally compared the Eurojpean Glutton with examples from the ^Jnited States and the British Posses- sions, and finding only such differences as frequently occur in specimens fron\ any given locality, modestly concludes in the following lai\guage: "The identity of the animals of the two continents is to b*i considered fairly established, whatever range of variation in size and color either may present. Previous to the construction of the Canadian Pacific llailway, nearly evtrjone who had written more than a few lines upon the habits of this animal, had gladly accepted whatever they could get from the courteous officers of the Hudson's Bay Company, who, in turn, were usually obliged to get their information from the Indians and white trap- pers of that region. While it may now seem an easy mi'tter to testify to the coi-rectness of this hearsay evidence, it should l>e remembered that no one man can do so from per- sonal experience; that many of the Eadson's Bay posts no longer exi^l; that the home of the Wolverine is still hun- dreds of miles north of the railroad, that the most desira- ble points have only one mail a year, and that in that 81 ai-sely settled region the few comi>eteut to furnish infor- mation t y either unknown to the outside .vvrld or do not wish to uouble themselves for the advancement of science al">ne. Under these conditions, verification has been dif- ficult; and we may well fo
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