The appended annotated bibliography supplies, in abstract form,
most of the hitherto published information on the geographical
distribution of _Rangifer arcticus arcticus_. In its preparation
I have included records of Caribou from the Arctic islands north
to Lancaster Sound, Barrow Strait, Viscount Melville Sound, and
McClure Strait--all approximately in latitude 74° N. This has
been done as a matter of having a convenient, well-defined
regional boundary, not with any conviction that _arcticus_ has
ranged so far to the north in the more westerly islands,
especially in recent years, when it is said to have become
restricted to the southern fringe of the islands (Clarke, 1940:
98; R. M. Anderson, 1947: 178; Banfield, 1949: fig. 1). The
islands north of latitude 74° are doubtless the exclusive domain
of _Rangifer pearyi_. It is possible that this species may also
occur to some extent on Banks, Victoria, Prince of Wales, and
Somerset islands. The typical _R. a. arcticus_, as currently
recognized, ranges eastward to Baffin, Salisbury, Coats, and
Southampton islands and to the western shore of Hudson Bay. (The
animals of the last three islands may be distinct insular
forms.) The southern limits of the winter range in northwestern
Ontario, central Manitoba, northern Saskatchewan, and
northeastern Alberta have been discussed in preceding pages. On
the west the range extends to the Mackenzie Delta (formerly),
Great Bear and Great Slave lakes, Wood Buffalo Park, and Lake
Claire. The timbered country (Hudsonian and Canadian Zones) is
practically entirely deserted by the Barren Ground Caribou in
mid-summer. At this season, in Keewatin at least, the animals
tend to draw away also from the southernmost portions of the
Barren Grounds.
_References._--Since practically every paper in the entire
bibliography presents some data on geographical distribution,
only a few, containing more than an average amount of new or
summarized information on the subject, have been selected for
inclusion in the following list of references: Hearne, 1795;
Franklin, 1823; Lyon, 1824; Franklin and Richardson, 1828;
Simpson, 1843; Pike, 1917 (1892); Russell, 1898; Preble, 1902;
Hanbury, 1904; Amundsen, 1908; Preble, 1908; R. M. Anderson, in
Stefánsson, 1913b; Stefánsson, 1913a, 1913b, and 1921; Hewitt,
1921; Jenness, 1922; Rasmussen, 1927; Seton, 1929, +3+;
Blanchet, 1930; Critchell-Bullock, 1930; Hoare, 1930; Jacobi,
1931; Clarke, 1940; Manning, 1943a; Wright, 1944; R. M.
Anderson, 1947; Manning, 1948; Banfield, 1949 and 1951a.
_Distributional maps._--Grant, 1903: map following p. 196;
Preble, 1908: pl. 19; Dugmore, 1913: 138; Hewitt, 1921: 57;
Seton, 1929, +3+: 60, map 2; Jacobi, 1931: 77, fig. 17; R. M.
Anderson, 1934b: 4062, fig. 6; Murie, 1939: 241; Clarke, 1940:
figs. 3, 4; Banfield, 1949: 479, fig. 1, and 1951a: figs.
4-10; Anonymous, 1952: 267.
ECOLOGY
_Habitats_
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