_Cervus tarandus_. . .: J. C. Ross, 1826: 94 (North Somerset
Island).
“Rein-deer”: Franklin, in Franklin and Richardson, 1828: 54, 57,
60, 64, 71, 72, 288 (Great Bear Lake).
“Rein-deer”: Richardson, in Franklin and Richardson, 1828: 200
(sinews used in Eskimo bows); 209, 218 (between Mackenzie River
and Cape Dalhousie); 224 (Liverpool Bay); 231 (E. of Cape
Bathurst); 241, 246 (near Cape Lyon); 249 (Cape Young); 255
(Dolphin and Union Strait); 269-273 (lower Coppermine River);
275 (stalking device of Hare Indians); 277 (Dease River); 282
(Great Bear Lake).
_Cervus tarandus_, var. [Greek: alpha] _arctica_ Richardson:
Richardson, 1829: 241-242 (original description); 239 (type
locality, neighborhood of Fort Enterprise, Mackenzie); 241
(rutting season); 241-242 (antler change); 242 (pelage change;
infestation with warble fly; foot click); 242-245 (economic uses
of hide, flesh, bones, and antlers; migration; not wintering S.
of Churchill); 242-244 (reproduction); 243, 245 (food); 245
(organization of herds; easy of approach); 245-249 (native
methods of hunting).
_Cervus tarandus_ L.: Godman, 1831, +2+: 283-284 (migration);
284 (food; gadfly attacking both Woodland and Barren Ground
Caribou); 285-293 (quotations from Franklin, 1823).
“Deer” or “reindeer”: John Ross, 1835a: 130-376, _passim_
(Boothia Peninsula); 243-244 (Eskimo clothing of deerskin); 252
(Eskimo method of hunting); 328, 330 (only small numbers up to
late April); 337 (many, early May); 352 (stomach contents as
food for Eskimos); 376 (migrating N., May 26); 389 (large herd);
390 (hundreds, June 4); 402 (pursued and eaten by wolves); 432
(with fawns, June 10); 438 (many in June); 512 (many killed by
Eskimos); 529 (many tracks, May 15); 530 (many passing, followed
by a wolf); 534 (many, May 21, with two wolves); 537 (Eskimos
killing deer in winter); 564 (a number pursued by a wolf); 612
(two, October 30); 628 (first tracks, March); 704 (tracks,
Somerset Island, late June).
_Cervus tarandus_. . .: J. C. Ross, in John Ross, 1835b: xvii
(great numbers, Boothia; weight 250 lb.; does arriving in April,
bucks in May; fawns hunted by Eskimos with dogs; utilization by
Eskimos; food; great numbers speared in water in autumn
migration; stragglers found in winter); xviii (measurements).
“Rein-deer” or “deer”: Back, 1836: 86 (Thelon River); 105 (Great
Slave Lake); 116 (Hoar-frost River); 128-129 (near Artillery
Lake, reindeer chased by wolves); 138-143 (Clinton-Colden and
Aylmer lakes); 156-157 (head of Great Fish River); 178, 205
(near Fort Reliance); 216, 225, 234 (remaining on Barren Grounds
near Great Slave Lake during winter); 261, 267, 268, 273, 280,
281, 285, 286 (Artillery Lake); 290, 292 (Lake Aylmer); 299,
307, 311, 320, 323, 325, 328, 337 (upper Back’s River); 367
(lower Back’s River, deer drowned in rapids); 420 (Chantrey
Inlet); 435, 439 (lower Back’s River).
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