106 ALLEN — THE BARREN-GROUND CARIBOU [" “vol TV 
The bez tine is less expanded, and the brow tine though sometimes 
of large size does not show the extreme development seen, for 
example, in the heads from Fort Chimo, Labrador, figured by 
Grant from specimens in the U. S. National Museum. The speci- 
men taken as the type is rather below the average in the characters 
named. 
It is unfortunate that at the present time no skins or body meas- 
urements are available; a comparison of cranial measurements 
with those of true arcticus would also be welcome. 
The Labrador barren-ground caribou is a migratory animal, 
and in autumn and winter may reach the more southern portions 
of the unforested part of the peninsula, meeting the woodland 
caribou, which, as Mr. Cabot tells me, sometimes associates with 
the smaller species at such times. On the east coast it follows the 
barrens quite to the Straits of Belle Isle, and in early July, 1906, I 
saw numerous tracks at Caribou Island and vicinity, which had 
been made by the animals a month or so previously. On the west 
side of the Peninsula, they probably do not come so far to the 
southward, as the forested area reaches the coast near Great Whale 
River, on Hudson Bay. 
During the summer the big herds are well to the north and on 
them the Nascaupee Indians of the interior largely depend for 
their supply of meat. In the account of her journey to Lake 
Michikamau and down the George River, Mrs. Hubbard ' gives an 
interesting relation of her experience with these caribou which she 
found in great numbers north of that lake in early August, 1905. 
Mr. Cabot found them the following year in late August along the 
height of land west of Davis Inlet. Though the great herd had 
passed, the Indians “had killed near a thousand.”” From Mr. John 
Ford, the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Agent at the George River 
post, Mrs. Hubbard learned “that they cross [the river] in the 
neighborhood of the post at different times of the year. He has 
seen them there in July and August, in October and November, 
in January, February, and March. They are seen only a few days 
1 Hubbard, Mrs. Leonidas, Jr. A Woman’s Way Through Unknown Labra- 
dor. New York, 1908. (Chapter 12 on the caribou.) 
