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offended his Cree hunter by throwing a bit of a moose heart 

 to his dog. The cartilaginous mass forming the greatly en- 

 larged muzzle is considered a great delicacy; that and the 

 tongue being especially prized. In winter these animals are 

 hunted on snow-shoes, as in other parts of Canada. 



Rangifer tarandus (L). A^nerican Reindeer. Common. 

 Not so numerous in summer as in winter, I saw their horns 

 in the possession of natives, and on one occasion struck their 

 trail in the muskeg. The destruction of this animal in the far 

 North must be very great, A postmaster, as those in charge 

 of Hudson's Bay Posts are called, who is located in the Great 

 Slave Lake region, told me that during the winter of 1890- 

 91, over ten thousand reindeer tongues had been brought into 

 his post. 



Before leaving the notes on Ungidata, it may be advisable 

 to mention the fact that a gentleman, who has for years been 

 a missionary in the far North-west, arrived at Grand Rapids 

 while we were there, and announced that he had seen, a few 

 da3^s before, on the shore of Cedar Lake, the freshly dropped 

 manure of an animal belonging to the family Bovidee, Of 

 course the first thought was that it was simply an evidence of 

 the recent presence of the domestic cow% but it seemed, upon 

 inquiry, that such a thing was deemed next to impossible by 

 Hudson's Bay men. The gentleman said that there were the 

 trails of two animals, neither deer, elk, moose nor caribou, 

 with all of which he was perfectly famihar. The question 

 arises whether or not there is any possibility of the survival 

 of a few buffalo in that region. The}' were common not far 

 from there only a few years ago, and Mr. McLean thought it 

 about as likely that the droppings spoken of were those of 

 buffalo as of the domestic cow. 



Order CARNIVORA. 



Although we did not meet with a single carnivore except 

 esquimaux dogs, the following species occur in that region, 

 according to the reports of the natives. 



