Produced by Louise Hope, Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, some images courtesy of The Internet Archive and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net [Transcriber’s Note: This e-text comes in two forms: Unicode (UTF-8) and Latin-1. Use the one that works best on your text reader. --If the tables use the male and female symbols (“Mars” and “Venus”), and apostrophes and quotation marks are “curly” or angled, you have the UTF-8 version (best). If any part of this paragraph displays as garbage, try changing your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding”. If that doesn’t work, proceed to: --In the Latin-1 version, symbols have been changed to the simple letters M and F. Apostrophes and quotation marks will be straight (“typewriter” form). Except for illustrations and footnotes, all brackets are in the 1955 original. The same applies to question marks and similar editorial punctuation. Typographical errors are listed at the end of the e-text. To reduce visual clutter, italic markings have been omitted from all references in the form “1951a” (printed “1951_a_”). _Geographical Note:_ Lake Nueltin straddles the border between Nunavut and Manitoba. The area covered by the map is in southern Nunavut, in the region now written Kivalliq. “Eskimo Point” is modern Arviat. The opinions expressed in this book are not necessarily those of the transcriber.] [Illustration: MAP 1. The Windy River area at the northwestern extremity of Nueltin Lake, Keewatin. (Most of the smaller features bear merely local or unofficial names.)] [Illustration: COVER A Caribou buck signaling with a sprawling posture of the left hind leg. Drawing by Earl L. Poole; based upon a motion-picture film taken August 24, 1947, near the Windy River post.] THE BARREN GROUND CARIBOU OF KEEWATIN By Francis Harper University of Kansas Lawrence · Kansas University of Kansas Museum of Natural History Editor: E. Raymond Hall _Miscellaneous Publication No. 6, pp. 1-164, 28 figs., 1 map_ _Published October 21, 1955_ Means for publication were supplied by: National Science Foundation Wildlife Management Institute American Committee for International Wildlife Protection Printed in U.S.A. THE ALLEN PRESS Lawrence, Kansas 1955 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 5 MIGRATIONS 7 Southern limits of winter range 7 Spring migration in the Churchill region 11 Spring migration in the Nueltin Lake region 12 Summer interlude 18 Fall migration in the Nueltin Lake region 18 Retrograde autumnal movement 32 Fall migration in the Churchill region 38