XV 111 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



PLATE FACING PAOE 



XII. Wood Bison 126 



XIII. Buffalo in barnyard, Elk Island Park, Alberta, during 



winter, showing possibilities of domestication . . . 136 

 Antelopes: two males, two young (male and female), born 

 in captivity, and adult female, in the private reserve 

 of R. Lloyd, Davidson, Saskatchewan 136 



XIV. Fence around the Buffalo Park, Wainwright, Alberta . 140 

 Buffalo in the Buffalo Park, Wainwright, Alberta . . 140 



XV. Diagrammatic representation of the economic status of 



some of our commoner birds 168 



XVI. Arctic Fox 172 



Coyotes attacking Sheep in Kamloops district of British 



Columbia 172 



Rocky Mountain Goat : female with young .... 172 



Nest of Pacific Eider Duck {Sumateria v.-nigra) ; Dolphin 



and Union Strait, Arctic Ocean 172 



Ptarmigan in the Yukon Territory 172 



XVII. Wild Ducks on United States Government Reserve . . 190 

 Portion of exhibition of bird-houses made by the boys in 

 one of the Ottawa public schools in a competition or- 

 ganized by the Ottawa Humane Society in 1917 . . 190 



XVIII. Lac La Peche, Quebec, showing the headquarters and 

 southern portion of the hunting-grounds of the Lau- 



rentian Club 246 



Laurentides Park, Quebec. One of the entrances to the 

 park at the junction of the Jacques Cartier and Cache 

 Rivers 246 



XIX. Western bird reserves 266 



XX. Dead Gannets on beach near Perce, Gaspe, Quebec . . 288 

 Gannets nesting on the cliffs of Bonaventure Island, Gaspe 288 

 Sea-bird group in American Museum of Natural History, 



representing a section of Bird Rock in the Gulf of St. 



Lawrence 288 



XXI. Bird reserves in the Gulf of St. Lawrence 302 



