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INDEX 



Quill Lakes bird reserve, description 

 of, 303 



Rabbit, or varying hare, fluctuation 

 of, 216 



Raccoon, fluctuations in, 232 



Railways, effect of, on wild life, 18 



Rainey, Paul J., herd of musk-ox of, 

 316 



Raising deer and other large animals 

 in the United States, 37 



Red Deer Point game reserve, area 

 of, 249 



Redberry lake bird reserve, descrip- 

 tion of, 303 



Reindeer, advantages of, 12; develop- 

 ment of, in Alaska, 318; importa- 

 tion of skins into Canada, 59-60; 

 introduced into Northwest Terri- 

 tories, 329 ; purchased from Europe, 

 326; regulations for, in Alaska, 

 322; use of, in Canada, 324 



Reindeer Island game reserve, area 

 of, 249 



Reserves, private, feeding on, 293; 

 food-planting, 293 



Revelstoke Park, 241 



Richardson, John, quoted, 107, 124 



Riding Mountain game reserve, 28, 

 249 



Robins, as insect destroyers, 167 



Rocky Mountain caribou (see cari- 

 bou) 



Rocky Mountain sheep (see sheep) 



Rocky Mountain Park, description 

 of. 237; wapiti in, 34; wild life in, 

 237 



Rondeau Provincial Park, description 

 of, 248 



Roosevelt, Theodore, quoted, on 

 value of clubs, 292 



Rutland, Vt., action of sportsmen 

 of, 9 



Sage hen (see grouse) 

 Sale of game, 332, 333 

 Sanctuaries for birds, 190, 289 

 Sandpipers, 158; least, 159; migration 

 range, 155; semi-palmated, 158; 



solitary, 159; upland plover, or 

 Bartramian, 159 



Saskatchewan, bird reserves in, 300, 

 301; game legislation of, 31, 282; 

 some reserves in, 250 



Saskatchewan Rivers (North and 

 South) game reserves, 251 



Saunders, W. E., bird protection 

 work of, 175 



Schultz, Hon. Dr., estimate of num- 

 ber of wood buffalo, 124 



Science, quoted, 41 



Scott, Capt. R. F., quoted, 287 



Scott, D. C, quoted, 15 



Seton, Ernest Thompson, quoted, 

 28, 31, 44, 73. 75, 93, 104, 126, 

 218, 226 



Sheep, black mountain, description 

 of, 76, 81 ; Dall's, description of, 76, 

 84; losses of, in British Columbia, 

 195; mountain, 5; protection of, 

 203; Rocky Mountain, 76, 78, 79, 

 80; Saddle-backed (Fannm's), 77; 

 Stone's, or black mountain, 76, 81 



Sheldon, Charles, quoted on sheep, 

 77, 78, 81, 85 



Shikar Club, object of, 297 



Shore-birds, or waders, 155 



Siberia, importations of reindeer 

 from, 318 



Skunk, fluctuations in, 230 



Smith, Harlan I., discovery of, 41 



Snipe, 156 



Snow or white goose (see geese) 



South America, bird protection in, 

 156 



Sparrows, native, as weed destroyers, 

 169 



Sport and Travel in Northland of 

 Canada, quoted, 63 



Sportsmen, interested in game pro- 

 tection, 296 



Spring shooting, effect of, 23 



Spruce Woods game reserve, area of, 

 249 



Stefansson, V., on caribou, 60; on 

 musk-ox, 92, 98; on domestica- 

 tion of musk-ox, 311 



Stone, A. J., quoted on moose, 52 



