“Deer”: Rae, 1852b: 83 (lower Coppermine River); 91, 95
(Victoria Island, vicinity of Albert Edward Bay).
“Barren Ground reindeer”: Richardson, 1852: 156 (Point
Atkinson); 158 (Cape Brown); 166 (Franklin Bay); 173 (Buchanan
River); 188 (Rae’s River); 198 (Kendall River region); 290
(Great Bear Lake; weight; great numbers [of Woodland or Barren
Ground species?] crossing Hayes River, 1833, and slaughtered
there by Indians); 296 (Great Bear Lake, migrating N. in May).
“Reindeer” or “deer”: Hooper, 1853: 296 (dried meat as winter
fare at Fort Norman); 302 (few along Bear River, November); 342
(Kendall Island); 343 (Richard Island); 378, 381 (meat as winter
fare at Fort Simpson); 391-393 (method of preparing pemmican).
“Rein-deer”: Kennedy, 1853: 128 (numerous tracks, North
Somerset, early April); 133 (Bellot Strait); 144, 150 (numerous,
Prince of Wales Island, late April).
_Rangifer caribou_ . . . (_C. tarandus, var. A. Arctica_
Richardson): Audubon and Bachman, 1854, +3+: 114 (quotations
from Richardson, 1829, and Hearne, 1795; “in every part of
Arctic America, including the region from Hudson’s Bay to far
within the Arctic circle”).
“Deer”: J. Anderson, 1856: 24 (about 100, mostly bucks, Adelaide
Peninsula, early August; Eskimos at Lake Franklin preparing to
hunt deer); 25 (a few does at Lake Macdougall, mid-August;
numerous at Aylmer and Clinton-Colden Lakes, early September).
“Deer”: J. Anderson, 1857: 321 (Eskimos hunting deer, Lake
Franklin, July 30); 322 (mouth of Back’s River, July 30); 323
(fat bucks killed, Montreal Island, August 2-3); 324, 325, 327
(100, mostly bucks, Adelaide Peninsula, August 6, 7, 11); 326
(all tracks going S., August 9); 328 (25 going S., Lake Pelly;
good deer passes between Lakes Pelly and Garry and at Hawk
Rapids).
“Reindeer” or “Deer”: Armstrong, 1857: 149, 154, 155 (Eskimos
with Reindeer meat and skins, Point Warren, E. of Mackenzie
River); 166 (skins and meat at Eskimo camp near Cape Dalhousie);
194 (deerskin clothing of Eskimos on coast of Mackenzie); 210,
316, 322, 384, 391, 395, 417 (Banks Island); 254, 335, 364, 365
(Victoria Island, in October, May, July, and August); 297, 336
(Prince of Wales Strait, January and May); 395 (predation by
wolves, Banks Island); 475-488, 497-499, 505-510, 514, 515,
521-530, 545-556, 568 (Banks Island; maximum weight 240 lb.;
distribution; remain during winter; fawning; 112 killed at Bay
of Mercy; quality of meat varying with season; wariness; antler
change; description; graze with heads to wind; pursuit by
wolves).
_Rangifer groenlandicus_ (Kerr) (part): Baird, 1857: 635
(description; weight); 635-636 (distribution).
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