THE GAME ANIMALS OF CANADA fa 
In 1911 what has been described as a new species of 
mountain caribou, the Rocky Mountain caribou (R. for- 
tidens), was described by Hollister.* 
This is a very large species, exceeding in size the other 
species of mountain caribou. The teeth are conspicuously 
large; the colour is very dark, ranging from dark brown to 
black, and the antlers are stout and heavily palmated, more 
like R. montanus but very different from R. osborni. The 
species was found at the head of the Moose Pass branch of 
the Smoky River, northeast of Mount Robson. 
As all these species of caribou, which are the reindeer of 
the New World, occur almost entirely in Canadian territory, 
with the exception of a few woodland caribou in Maine, 
northern Minnesota, and northern Idaho and the caribou 
in Alaska, a special responsibility lies upon us to take every 
possible step to prevent their reduction to the extent that 
their existence would be menaced. It is important, there- 
fore, that all the provinces concerned in their protection 
should take especial care that their game laws provide for 
such protection as the local abundance of these caribou de- 
mands; for otherwise we may lose in some regions a very 
unique member of our big-game fauna. 
ANTELOPE 
The history of the antelope, or ‘‘pronghorn,” in North 
America, its only home, constitutes another of those trag- 
edies in the story of our wild life. The most graceful and 
the fleetest of our four-footed animals, it has suffered a fate 
not unlike that of its companion of the wide prairies, the 
buffalo, with the herds of which it formerly shared a wide 
range, extending from the provinces of Alberta, Saskatche- 
wan, and Manitoba in the north to Mexico in the south. 
* “New Mammals from Canada, Alaska and Kamchatka,”’ by N. Hollister. 
Smithsonian Misc. Collections, vol. 56, no. 35, pp. 1-8, 1912. See also 
Canadian Alpine Journal, special no., pp. 37-39, 1912, 
