_Rangifer arcticus_ (Richardson): Critchell-Bullock, 1930: 55
(Artillery Lake; weight; therapeutic value of meat); 58 (Thelon
River, thousands, late July); 143 (use as fox bait); 159-160
(numbers); 159-162 (useful role of Wolf as Caribou predator);
192 (wind direction scarcely affecting migration; Artillery
Lake, mostly bucks, September to November; bucks getting lean,
October 17; antlers dropping and flesh improving, November 7;
practically all (buck) antlers dropped, November 19; Artillery
Lake, several hundred does, November 4, then continuing to pass
N. during winter; bands of bucks passing S., November 26 to
December 9; young bucks with does during winter; does dropping
antlers, March 24 to mid-April; all does gone N. by April 27;
bucks moved N. of Hanbury River by June 20; main s. migration,
Thelon River, July 23; all sexes and ages, in bands up to
2,000--total number 10,000+); 193 (scourged and driven by
insects; voice; stage of pelage differing in sexes; delta of
Dubawnt River; possibly yearling doe with fawn; flies gone
August 24, animals putting on fat; does massing in September,
hundreds slaughtered by Eskimos at Thelon-Dubawnt mouth; last
seen, Baker Lake, September 5); 194-196 (table of Caribou
movements--localities, dates, numbers, sex, wind.)--1931: 32
(conservation); 33 (trade in hides; Back’s River Eskimos living
“solely” on Caribou).
“Caribou”: Hoare, 1930: 13 (bucks migrating NE., June, Artillery
Lake to Ford Lake); 14 (10,000+ near Campbell Lake, going SW.,
late July); 16 (bands near Smart Lake, August); 21 (Ford Lake,
early December); 22 (Artillery Lake and Pike’s Portage,
numerous, December; wolf predation); 27 (small bands swimming
lower Thelon River, late June); 31 (swimming Hanbury River,
July); 33 (great numbers of bucks going S. Thelon River, July
22; relation of migrations to insects and storms); 36 (circular
migration about e. end of Great Slave Lake; ne. migration in
spring down Thelon River); 37-38 (relation of migration to
mosquitoes); 52-53 (summation by R. M. Anderson: carrying
capacity of range--60 acres per Caribou; probably total not over
3,000,000).
_Rangifer arcticus_. . .: Kitto, 1930: 87 (food; economy;
numbers and depletion; migrations); 88 (effect of firearms;
segregation of sexes and ages); 89 (wolves; insect pests); 89-90
(conservation measures); 110 (Keewatin, mainland and Southampton
and Coats islands; Churchill, Eskimo Point, and Baker Lake).
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