_Rangifer arcticus arcticus_ (Richardson): Soper, 1944: 274-250
(great reduction in southern coastal region of Baffin Island;
few left on Foxe Peninsula; Hantzsch and Soper rivers; Bowman,
Amadjuak, and Frobisher bays; Lake Harbour; Nettilling Lake; Big
Island; Grinnell Glacier; Cockburn Land); 248 (measurements);
248-249 (migrations); 248-250 (utilization by Eskimos).
“Caribou”: [U.S.] War Department, 1944: 40 (Canadian mainland
and Arctic islands); 77 (importance as food).
“Barren ground caribou”: Wright, 1944: 185 (late summer skins
for clothing; high value of the meat; reduction in numbers); 186
(migration routes changed by overgrazing, fires, and excessive
hunting; numbers); 187 (annual consumption in Keewatin not less
than 22,000; decrease on Boothia and Melville peninsulas;
locally plentiful in w. Baffin Island; scarce on King William
Island; none on Adelaide Peninsula; great decrease on
Southampton Island); 188 (small herds on Coats Island; varying
numbers on Baffin Island, where skins are imported for clothing;
a herd on Bylot Island); 189 (scarce at Arctic Bay and on
Brodeur Peninsula); 190 (migration on Baffin Island); 191
(Baffin population estimated at 25,000); 193 (tables of numbers
taken annually on Baffin Island and in Keewatin); 195 (smaller
caribou on Boothia Peninsula and on Somerset and Prince of Wales
islands).
“Caribou”: Young, 1944: 236-238, 243 (predation by wolves in the
Barren Grounds, including Southampton Island and Artillery
Lake).
_Rangifer arcticus arcticus_ (Richardson): Gavin, 1945: 227-228
(recent increase at Perry River and Bathurst Inlet; partly
resident on mainland but also migratory, a few crossing to
Victoria Island); 228 (many fawning on small coastal islands and
Kent Peninsula; many succumbing to mosquitoes; damage by larvae
of warble fly).
_Rangifer arcticus arcticus_ (Richardson): R. M. Anderson, 1947:
178 (type locality; Mackenzie and Keewatin, from Hudson Bay and
Melville Peninsula W. to lower Mackenzie Valley, and N. to s.
fringe of islands N. of the mainland Arctic coast; migrating S.
to Churchill River or beyond, Reindeer Lake, Lake Athabaska, and
occasionally the Wood Buffalo Park in ne. Alberta).
_Rangifer arcticus_. . .: R. M. Anderson, 1948: 15 (decrease;
shift of range attributed to fire or overgrazing; need of
protection; killing from planes; Northwest Territories; northern
Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta).
_Rangifer arcticus_ (Richardson): Manning, 1948: 26-28 (Eyrie,
Big Sand, Neck, Sandhill, Malaher, Boundary, Boulder, South
Henik, Camp, Carr, Alder, Victory, Ninety-seven, Twin, and Baker
lakes; Tha-anne and Kazan rivers; W. of Padlei; Christopher
Island; Chesterfield Inlet; Tavani; most numerous in the more
southerly and westerly of these localities in Manitoba and
Keewatin; heavy grazing on lichens where the caribou had been
numerous; migration; trails).
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