Barren Grounds); 312 (albino caribou).
“Barren land caribou”: Stockwell, 1933: 45 (large herds in
August, Point, Thonokied, and MacKay lakes and Coppermine
River).
“Caribou”: Weeks, 1933: 65 (very plentiful on Maguse River after
August 4).
_Rangifer arcticus arcticus_ (Richardson): R. M. Anderson,
1934a: 81 (utilization of skin and meat; migrations; Melville
Peninsula, Boothia Peninsula, and Baffin Island).
_Rangifer arcticus_. . .: R. M. Anderson, 1934b: 4062, fig. 9
(map shows range of subsp. arcticus extending N. only to Arctic
coast and over Baffin Island).
_Rangifer arcticus_. . .: Flerov, 1934: 240 (cranial
measurements).
“Caribou”: Godsell, 1934: 273-276 (trade with Eskimos on Arctic
coast resulting in great slaughter of caribou); 276 (importation
of reindeer to Mackenzie Delta region to replace caribou).
_Rangifer arcticus_ (Richardson): Hornby, 1934: 105 (food;
weight; fat; migrations influenced by natives, unfrozen large
lakes, and fires; effects of flies; rutting season and behavior;
antler shedding); 106 (irregular migrations; sexual segregation;
wolf predation); 106-107 (movements, numbers, and dates in
region between Great Slave and Baker lakes); 108 (beneficial
effect of wolves on caribou).
“Caribou”: Wray, 1934: 141 (abundant, Lac de Gras, 1932); 144
(few S. of Mackay Lake).
_Rangifer arcticus arcticus_ (Richardson): Degerbøl, 1935: 48-51
(specimens from Baffin Island and Melville Peninsula, including
an albino from Rae Isthmus; descriptions).
“Caribou”: Freuchen, 1935: 93 (abundance of rabbits supposed to
lessen wolf predation on caribou); 99 (wolverine reputed to
attack sleeping caribou); 120 (pursuit by wolves near Wager
Inlet); 121 (followed by wolves, Melville Peninsula; predation
by wolves, Southampton Island); 122 (wolves said not to follow
caribou across streams; wolf methods of hunting caribou); 128
(caribou carcasses consumed by Arctic foxes).
_Rangifer arcticus arcticus_ (Richardson): Murie, 1935: 74, 75
(type locality; skull measurements).
“Barren ground caribou”: Alcock, 1936: 9 (Lake Athabaska).
_Rangifer arcticus_. . .: Birket-Smith, 1936: 90 (importance to
Eskimos); 91 (migration; snow pitfalls, baited with urine;
hunting with spears, rows of stone cairns, snares, and bows);
110 (dependence of Caribou Eskimos on Caribou); 111 (frequent
famine and cannibalism among them for lack of Caribou; lookout
knolls for Caribou); 112 (sexual segregation in herds); 115-116
(clothing of caribou skin).
“Caribou”: Soper, 1936: 429 (resorting to Grinnell Glacier,
Baffin Island, to escape mosquitoes).
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