INDEX 



Adverse factors to conservation, 21 



Agriculture, Canada's basic industry, 

 7; effect of extension of, 23; effect 

 of, on antelope, 72 



Agriculture Dept., Canadian, cross- 

 breeding of buffalo by, 140 



Alaska, last stronghold of big game, 26 



Alberta, bird reserves in, 300; game 

 legislation of, 282; game reserves 

 in, 252 



Algonquin Park, deer killed for meat 

 in, 247; description of, 247; wild 

 life in, 247 



Allen, J. A., quoted on buffalo, 116; 

 quoted on Osborn's caribou, 70; 

 quoted on musk-ox, 89 



American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, 97 



Anderson, Dr. R. M., quoted on cari- 

 bou, 59, 60, 65; on skins used for 

 clothing, 59, 86; report on musk-ox 

 prepared by, 95; reports of, on 

 bird reserves, 301 



Anglo-Newfoundland Development 

 Co., use reindeer in logging camps, 



327 

 Animals, periodic fluctuations of, 213 

 Antelope, 5; abundance of, 73; distri- 

 bution of, in Canada, 73; effect 

 of extension of agriculture upon, 

 72; habits of, 73; history of, 71; 

 slaughter of, 72 

 Antelope Park, 75, 240 

 Archibald, E. S., statement on cross- 

 breeding buffalo by, 140 

 Area of Dominion Parks, 242 

 Asia, central, mountain sheep of, 5 

 Auks, razorbill, breeding, 308 

 Auld, F. H., on control of wolves and 

 coyotes in Saskatchewan, 200 



Bacon, W. H., supplies fur returns of 

 Hudson's Bay Co., 215 



Baird, Prof. S. F., on domestication 

 of ruminants, 311; on reindeer, 319 



Balance of nature in wild life, 22 



Barber, Charles, quoted, 30, 44, 69 



Barren-ground grizzly bear (see bear) 



Barren lands, fur trade of, 10 



Basin Lake game reserve, description 

 of, 303 



Bear, barren-ground grizzly, 108 



Bear, black, fluctuations of, 232; 

 habits of, 109; skins of, 108; wide 

 range of, 108 



Bear, grizzly, distribution of, 103; 

 habits of, 104; variation in colour 

 of, 107 



Bear, Kermode's white, description 

 of, no 



Bear, polar, habits of, 102; in need of 

 protection, 102 



Bears, in general, loi; protection of, 

 III; sale of meat in British Co- 

 lumbia, 33 



Beaver, fluctuations in numbers of, 

 232 



Beaver Hills game reserve, area of, 

 250 



Bedson, S. L., buffalo cross-breeding 

 by, 138 



Bell, J. M., quoted on barren-ground 

 grizzly bear, 107 



Berlepsch, Baron Von, bird protec- 

 tion of, 177 



Bernier, Capt. Joseph E., supplies 

 musk-ox to New York, 316 



Big Hay Lake bird reserve, descrip- 

 tion of, 305 



Big-horn sheep (see sheep) 



Big River game reserve, area of, 251 



Bigstick Lake bird reserve, descrip- 

 tion of, 304 



Biological Investigation of the Atha- 

 baska-Mackenzie Region, 51 



Birch Island game reserve, area of, 249 



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