_Rangifer arcticus_ (Richardson): Clarke, 1940: 5, 7 (dependence
of Indians and Eskimos on caribou); 8-9 (Rum Lake country a
wintering ground; Eskimos from Back’s River to Wager Inlet and
Baker Lake dependent on winter caribou; likewise those at
Beverly, Aberdeen, and Schultz lakes); 11 (great winter herd S.
and W. of Bathurst Inlet); 65 (fluctuations; current abundance
in Hanbury-Thelon region and scarcity at Baker Lake); 70
(parasites; diseases); 84 (economic importance); 85-86
(migrating southward in late July in Thelon Game Sanctuary and
at Tourgis Lake, in early August at Hanbury, Artillery,
Clinton-Colden, and Aylmer lakes, and from early August to late
September at Taltson River and Thekulthili and Nonacho lakes; in
autumn near Lac de Gras and on upper Back’s River; in autumn and
winter at Reliance and Snowdrift); 87-90 (at least 100,000
migrating N. in early July at Hanbury and Thelon rivers,
including does with month-old fawns); 89, 90 (molt); 91
(previous records in Thelon Sanctuary region); 92-93 (near Lake
Athabaska and Slave River and at Hill Island Lake in early
August; Wood Buffalo Park in winter; the various groups and
their movements defined); 93-95 (early ideas of migrations); 95
(fallacies; sexual segregation; antlers; influence of flies);
96-97 (details of migratory movements; retrograde autumnal
movement); 98 (extermination of bands formerly migrating from
mainland to Victoria and King William islands); 98-100
(irregular migrations; influences--such as wide open waters,
overgrazing, and fires--affecting migrations); 101-104 (carrying
capacity of range; numbers estimated at 3,000,000; increase and
decrease); 104-106 (accidents); 106-107 (effects of fire and
overgrazing; food); 107-110 (wolves and other predators); 110
(hunting and its effects); 112 (importance to natives).
_Rangifer arcticus arcticus_ (Richardson): G. M. Allen, 1942:
297 (mainstay of Eskimos and Indians); 297-298 (description);
298-299 (Hudson Bay to Mackenzie River, N. to Banks and Victoria
Islands, Boothia, Southampton and Baffin Islands, S. to
Churchill River, Reindeer Lake, and ne. Alberta; migratory
habit; shift of range due to human crowding and destruction of
winter forage by fire); 299 (increased slaughter in winter
range; reduction on Southampton Island).
“Caribou”: Manning, 1942: 28 (rapidly reduced on Southampton
Island after establishment of a post in 1924); 29 (insufficient
skins for Eskimo clothing); 29 (wolves, for lack of caribou,
became extinct on Southampton by 1937).
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