THE GAME ANIMALS OF CANADA 103 
1902-11, the number of white bear skins offered for sale at 
their auctions in London, England, ranged from a maxi- 
mum of 170 in 1902, to a minimum of 82 in 1911, and the 
average number offered was only 97. These figures tell 
their own story, and indicate most strongly the urgent 
necessity of increased protection which this animal must un- 
questionably receive and, we hope, will receive in the future. 
It constitutes an economic resource of no mean value, apart 
from the obvious duty of preventing so unique a species 
of mammal from reaching the point of extinction in the 
territories under our control and supervision. 
GrizzLy Brear (Ursus horribilis) 
Disiribution.—The fame of the North American grizzly 
is world-wide. In the days when the buffalo was abundant, 
and up to the early part of the last century, it ranged the 
western plains, foot-hills, and mountains with its supremacy 
unchallenged. The buffalo bull fell beneath its powerful 
blows, but now in its mountain retreats it more usually 
contents itself with such infinitely smaller prey as mice and 
ants. 
From the journals of Alexander Henry we learn that in 
1800 it occurred in southwestern Manitoba, and the capture 
of grizzlies at Portage la Prairie will appear somewhat as- 
tonishing to the residents of to-day in that region. This 
was its most easterly range; and westward and southward 
it ranged the plains and foot-hills of the Rockies. The dis- 
appearance of the buffalo and the systematic hunting of 
the grizzly, which in the early days was both dangerous and 
destructive to the cattle and horses on the range, led to its 
extermination over practically the whole of the non-moun- 
_ tainous portion of its range. Even in the mountains it 
is nowhere common at the present time. The greatest 
number are to be found in the Rocky Mountains and their 
