INDEX 
Stone’s black mountain sheep (see 
sheep) 
St. Lawrence, bird reservations in 
Gulf of, 307 
Strathcona Park, 254 
Swallows, feed on adult insects, 169 
Swamps, effect of drainage of, 23 
Swans, trumpeter, 145; whistling, 144 
Taverner, P. A., 241, 255; estimate 
by, of birds on Bonaventure 
Island, 308; on Canada goose, 146; 
on scarcity of grouse, 164; on 
whistling swans, 144 
The Pines game reserve, area of, 250 
Thrush, food of, 168 
Tit, blue, insect food of, 167, 168 
Townsend, Dr. C. W., quoted, 154, 
319 
Trading posts, new, 
Arctic, 60 
Trapping of wolves, coyotes, 204 
Treaty on bird protection, resolu- 
tion on, 267 
Tree-creepers, insect food of, 168 
Trees and shrubs attractive to birds, 
184-188 
Trembling Mountain Park, 244 
Turtle Mountain game reserve, area 
of, 249 
Tyrrell, J. B., on barren-ground 
grizzly bear, 107; on caribou, 63; 
on moose, 52; on musk-ox, 94 
Tyrrell, J. W., quoted on caribou, 65 
in Canadian 
United States, animals extend range 
to, 5; raising deer and other large 
animals in, 37; wild life lost to, 1 
United States Dept. of Agriculture, 
bird census of, 175 
Useful Birdsand Their Protection, 181 
Utah Live Stock Board, estimate by, 
of losses of sheep by wolves, 206 
Vancouver, bird sanctuary in Stan- 
ley Park at, 192 
Vermont, experience of, 8, 9 
Wallachia, buffalo of, 5 
Wapiti, or elk, 4, 5; as meat supply, 
343 
36; bulletin on, 37; decreasing in 
Alberta, 31; distribution of, in 
Saskatchewan, 30; estimated num- 
ber of, 28; habits of, 35; in British 
Columbia, 32, 33; in Manitoba, 30; 
popular name for, 4; range of, 28; 
representative of European rein- 
deer, 26 
Warblers, insect food of, 168 
Wascana game reserve, 251 
Waterton Lakes Park, description of, 
238; wapiti in, 34; wild life in, 239 
Weed seeds eaten by birds, 169 
Wharton, W. P., estimate by, of 
buffalo in 1912, 134 
Wheeler, Dr. W. M., Preface, v 
Whistling swan (see swan) 
White Bear Lake bird reserve, 304 
White, James (J. W.), buffalo in 
Wainwright Buffalo Park, 135; on 
sale of reindeer meat, 325 
White wavey geese, 149 
Wild fowl, slaughtering grounds of, 24 
Wild life, conservation of, 7, 18; con- 
ditions militating against, 235; re- 
lation of Indians to, 12; danger in 
numbers of, 19; economic devel- 
opment of, 10; enemies of, 193; 
extermination of, 17; protection of, 
by Dominion Government, 258; rec- 
reative value of, 13; relation of, 
to natives, 12; value of, to farmers, 
291 
Wild Life Conservation, 9 
Wild Life Protection, Advisory Board 
on, 259 
Wild life protection, individual effort 
in, 286 
Wilderness of the Upper Yukon, 
quoted, 77 
Wilkins, George H., quoted on musk- 
Ox, 95 
Williams, Bryan, quoted, 33, 53, 70, 
83, 88, 198 
Wilson, Dr. C. W., quoted on moose, 
53 
Wintemberg, W. J., discovery of, 41 
Wire fences, effect of, on antelope, 72 
Wolverine, fluctuations in, 232 
Wolves, bounty paid on, in Alberta, 
