342 
Quill Lakes bird reserve, description 
of, 303 
Rabbit, or varying hare, fluctuation 
of, 216 
Raccoon, fluctuations in, 232 
Railways, effect of, on wild life, 18 
Rainey, Paul J., herd of musk-ox of, 
316 
Raising deer and other large animals 
in the United States, 37 
Red Deer Point game reserve, area 
of, 249 
Redberry lake bird reserve, descrip- 
tion of, 303 
Reindeer, advantages of, 12; develop- 
ment of, in Alaska, 318; importa- 
tion of skins into Canada, 59-60; 
introduced into Northwest Terri- 
tories, 329; purchased from Europe, 
326; regulations for, in Alaska, 
322; use of, in Canada, 324 
Reindeer Island game reserve, area 
of, 249 
Reserves, private, feeding on, 293; 
food-planting, 293 
Revelstoke Park, 241 
Richardson, John, quoted, 107, 124 
Riding Mountain game reserve, 28, 
249 
Robins, as insect destroyers, 167 
Rocky Mountain caribou (see cari- 
bou) 
Rocky Mountain sheep (see sheep) 
Rocky Mountain Park, description 
of, 237; wapiti in, 34; wild life in, 
237 
Rondeau Provincial Park, description 
of, 248 
Roosevelt, Theodore, 
value of clubs, 292 
Rutland, Vt., action of sportsmen 
of, 9 
quoted, on 
Sage hen (see grouse) 
Sale of game, 332, 333 
Sanctuaries for birds, 190, 289 
Sandpipers, 158; least, 159; migration 
range, 155; semi-palmated, 158; 
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solitary, 159; upland plover, or 
Bartramian, 159 
Saskatchewan, bird reserves in, 300, 
301; game legislation of, 31, 282; 
some reserves in, 250 
Saskatchewan Rivers (North and 
South) game reserves, 251 
Saunders, W. E., bird protection 
work of, 175 
Schultz, Hon. Dr., estimate of num- 
ber of wood buffalo, 124 
Science, quoted, 41 
Scott, Capt. R. F., quoted, 287 
Scott, D. C., quoted, 15 
Seton, Ernest Thompson, quoted, 
28, 31, 44, 73, 75, 93, 104, 126, 
218, 226 
Sheep, black mountain, description 
of, 76, 81; Dall’s, description of, 76, 
84; losses of, in British Columbia, 
195; mountain, 5; protection of, 
203; Rocky Mountain, 76, 78, 79, 
80; Saddle-backed (Fannin’s), 77; 
Stone’s, or black mountain, 76, 81 
Sheldon, Charles, quoted on sheep, 
77, 78, 81, 85 
Shikar Club, object of, 297 
Shore-birds, or waders, 155 
Siberia, importations of 
from, 318 
Skunk, fluctuations in, 230 
Smith, Harlan I., discovery of, 41 
Snipe, 156 
Snow or white goose (see geese) 
South America, bird protection in, 
156 
Sparrows, native, as weed destroyers, 
169 
Sport and Travel in Northland of 
Canada, quoted, 63 
Sportsmen, interested in game pro- 
tection, 296 
Spring shooting, effect of, 23 
Spruce Woods game reserve, area of, 
249 
Stefansson, V., on caribou, 60; on 
musk-ox, 92, 98; on domestica- 
tion of musk-ox, 311 
Stone, A. J., quoted on moose, 52 
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