i6o THE DEER FAMILY 



Farther west, in the Canadian provinces, the wood- 

 land caribou are found, and when they have not been 

 much persecuted they are comparatively easy to shoot. 

 Mr. Tyrrell, of the Canadian Geological Survey, wrote 

 of these animals in a letter to Mr. Hornaday,in which he 

 says that the woodland caribou may be found in all the 

 thickly wooded tracts of Alberta, Athabasca, and Sas- 

 katchewan, and that this deer is known to the Indians 

 of that country as the Muskeg-Atik, or swamp-deer, in 

 recognition of the fact that it lives in the swamps and 

 coniferous forests, and not on the plains, or in the 

 country studded with groves of poplar. Mr. Tyrrell 

 does not believe the woodland caribou are numerous 

 anywhere in the Canadian Northwest Territories.* 



* Hornaday, The American Natural History, p. 135. 



