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that the applicant shall have killed at least three big- 

 game animals of different kinds. 



The two caribou are listed separately by the club as 

 the woodland caribou and the barren-ground caribou. 

 There are, therefore, two caribou for sportsmen, and 

 an3'one who kills them both need only kill one other 

 big-game animal to be eligible for membership in that 

 justly famous organization and be invited to dine an- 

 nually with Roosevelt, Grinnell, Rodgers, and ninety- 

 seven other distinguished sportsmen, many of whom 

 have written capital descriptions of the chase. 



The woodland caribou is certainly a good geograph- 

 ical race. As its name would indicate, it inhabits the 

 forest regions, its range extending from Maine west- 

 ward through British America, and lying directly south 

 of the range of the barren-ground caribou, which dwells 

 on the great northern plains called the barren grounds 

 which extend to the Arctic Sea, 



The range of the caribou, like that of the other deer, 

 has been restricted by persecution, and the caribou is 

 now so nearly exterminated in Maine that the killing 

 of these animals there is prohibited at all times. They 

 are migratory, or at least have the habit of moving 

 for greater distances than any of the other mem- 

 bers of the deer family. The barren-ground caribou 

 are more migratory than the woodland animals, of 

 which species Grinnell says: "The migration seems to 

 be little more than a mere restlessness, a desire to keep 

 moving, or a natural change from a winter feeding- 

 ground to a summer one, and back again; but in the 

 barren-ground form, the journeys take place with so 

 much regularity and are on such a large scale that 



