INDEX 
Adverse factors to conservation, 21 
Agriculture, Canada’s basic industry, 
7; effect of extension of, 23; effect 
of, on antelope, 72 
Agriculture Dept., Canadian, cross- 
breeding of buffalo by, 140 
Alaska, last stronghold of big game, 26 
Alberta, bird reserves in, 300; game 
legislation of, 282; game reserves 
in, 252 
Algonquin Park, deer killed for meat 
in, 247; description of, 247; wild 
life in, 247 
Allen, J. A., quoted on buffalo, 116; 
quoted on Osborn’s caribou, 70; 
quoted on musk-ox, 89 
American Museum of Natural His- 
tory, 97 
Anderson, Dr. R. M., quoted on cari- 
bou, 59, 60, 65; on skins used for 
clothing, 59, 86; report on musk-ox 
prepared by, 95; reports of, on 
bird reserves, 301 
Anglo-Newfoundland Development 
Co., use reindeer in logging camps, 
327 
Animals, periodic fluctuations of, 213 
Antelope, 5; abundance of, 73; distri- 
bution of, in Canada, 73; effect 
of extension of agriculture upon, 
72; habits of, 73; history of, 71; 
slaughter of, 72 
Antelope Park, 75, 240 
Archibald, E. S., statement on cross- 
breeding buffalo by, 140 
Area of Dominion Parks, 242 
Asia, central, mountain sheep of, 5 
Auks, razorbill, breeding, 308 
Auld, F. H., on control of wolves and 
coyotes in Saskatchewan, 200 
Bacon, W. H., supplies fur returns of 
Hudson’s Bay Co., 215 
Baird, Prof. S. F., on domestication 
of ruminants, 311; on reindeer, 319 
Balance of nature in wild life, 22 
Barber, Charles, quoted, 30, 44, 69 
Barren-ground grizzly bear (see bear) 
Barren lands, fur trade of, 10 
Basin Lake game reserve, description 
of, 303 
Bear, barren-ground grizzly, 108 
Bear, black, fluctuations of, 232; 
habits of, 109; skins of, 108; wide 
range of, 108 
Bear, grizzly, distribution of, 103; 
habits of, 104; variation in colour 
of, 107 
Bear, Kermode’s white, description 
of, 110 
Bear, polar, habits of, 102; in need of 
protection, 102 
Bears, in general, 101; protection of, 
111; sale of meat in British Co- 
lumbia, 33 
Beaver, fluctuations in numbers of, 
232 
Beaver Hills game reserve, area of, 
250 
Bedson, S. L., buffalo cross-breeding 
by, 138 
Bell, J. M., quoted on barren-ground 
grizzly bear, 107 
Berlepsch, Baron Von, bird protec- 
tion of, 177 
Bernier, Capt. Joseph E., supplies 
musk-ox to New York, 316 
Big Hay Lake bird reserve, descrip- 
tion of, 305 
Big-horn sheep (see sheep) 
Big River game reserve, area of, 251 
Bigstick Lake bird reserve, descrip- 
tion of, 304 
Biological Investigation of the Atha- 
baska-Mackenzie Region, 51 
Birch Island game reserve, area of, 249 
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