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Identifier: conservationofwi00hewi (find matches)
Title: The conservation of the wild life of Canada
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Hewitt, Charles Gordon, 1885-1920
Subjects: Game protection Birds Game and game-birds
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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ted, even by Indians. The report states thatone day, while travelling some twelve miles, small bands ofcaribou were constantly in view, and that one large bandof close on to five hundred head was seen. In his annualreport for 1915 Mr. Williams states: When the last reportwas written the mountain caribou in the Selkirks were sup-posed to be very scarce, but subsequent reports were quitethe contrary. In fact, there were more caribou about thanfor some years, though, owing to the bad crust on the snow,they were hard to get. The Chilcotin caribou have almostdisappeared. Even the Indians are now agitating for anabsolutely close season in certain areas, and I promise tosee that if such regulations are made they will be observed.There are many more caribou on the ranges towards thehead of the Fraser River than there were thought to be.This country was hunted a good deal during the past season,and one party reported having seen 128 head, which is avery large number for this district. PLATE VI
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Photographs by W. E. Ekblaic of the Crocker Land Expedition of the American Museumof Natural History. Reproduced Inj permission MUSK-OXEX ON ELLESMERE ISLAND 1. Eskimos rounding up by moans of clogs and sliooting down a herd of Music-oxen 2. Herd of Musk-oxen in characteristic defensive formation 3. Herd of Musk-oxen rounded up by Eskimo dogs THE GAME ANIMALS OF CANADA 71 In 1911 what has been described as a new species ofmountam caribou, the Rocky Mountain caribou (R. for-tidens), was described by HolHster.* This is a very large species, exceeding in size the otherspecies of mountain caribou. The teeth are conspicuouslylarge; the colour is very dark, ranging from dark brown toblack, and the antlers are stout and heavily palmated, morelike R. montanus but very different from R. osborni. Thespecies was found at the head of the Moose Pass branch ofthe Smoky River, northeast of Mount Robson. As all these species of caribou, which are the reindeer ofthe New World, occur almost entirely in

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