_Rangifer arcticus arcticus_ (Richardson): R. M. Anderson, 1937:
103 (lower Mackenzie River to Hudson Bay; use of skin and meat;
scarce on coast W. of Bathurst Inlet; concentration between
Bathurst Inlet, Great Slave Lake, and Baker Lake; S. into Wood
Buffalo Park; use of rifles by Central Eskimos resulting in
decrease; apparent intergradation with _R. a. pearyi_ in
northern islands).
“Caribou”: Godsell, 1937: 288 (caribou migrating between
mainland and Arctic islands exterminated by Eskimos with
ammunition supplied by traders); 289 (reindeer imported to mouth
of Mackenzie to replace vanished caribou).
_Rangifer arcticus_. . .: Henriksen, 1937: 25 (larvae of
_Cephenomyia trompe_ L. from nasal passage, Baker Lake, May 2);
26 (larvae of _Oedemagena tarandi_ collected from caribou in
May, Gore Bay, Lyon Inlet, and Melville Peninsula).
_Rangifer arcticus arcticus_. . .: R. M. Anderson, 1938: 400
(perhaps no great reduction in numbers, but some shifting of
range from human encroachments and fire; wintering S. to n.
Manitoba and Saskatchewan and ne. Alberta; estimate of
3,000,000).
_Rangifer arcticus_. . .: Hamilton, 1939: 109 (hoofs; function
of fat); 244-247 (migrations); 246, 352, 359 (importance to
Indians and Eskimos); 247 (influence of mosquitoes on movements;
sexual segregation); 301 (distribution determined by insect
pests); 359 (immense herd in ne. Saskatchewan).
_Rangifer arcticus arcticus_ Richardson: Murie, 1939: 239
(Mackenzie River to Hudson Bay and Baffin Island, including some
of the Arctic islands; diagnosis); 244 (antlers; pelage;
migration; rut in September and October); 245 (food; ankle
click; voice; gait; senses; insect pests; Wolves and other
predators); 245-246 (danger from introduction of Reindeer); 246
(adaptation to environment).
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