202 THE LARGE AMERICAN MAMMALS 



the limit of trees, embracing the Barren Grounds of northern 

 Canada, the great arctic archipelago, Ellesmere, Melville 

 and Grant Lands and Greenland. This region is the home of 

 the musk-ox and three species of arctic caribou. 



The Alaska-Yukon Region, inhabited by the moose, white 

 mountain sheep, mountain goat, four species of caribou and 

 half a dozen species of Alaska brown, grizzly and black bears. 



Northern Ontario, Quebec, Labrador and Newfoundland, 

 inhabited by moose, woodland caribou, white-tailed deer and 

 black bear. 



British Columbia, inhabited by a magnificent big-game 

 fauna embracing the moose, elk, caribou of two species, 

 white sheep, black sheep, big-horn sheep, mule deer, white- 

 tailed deer, mountain goat, grizzly, black and inland white 

 bears. 



The Sierra Madre of Mexico, containing jaguar, puma, 

 grizzly and black bears, mule deer, white-tailed deer, antelope, 

 mountain sheep and peccaries. 



I have necessarily omitted all those regions of the United 

 States and Canada which still contain a remnant of big 

 game, but which have been literally "shot to pieces" by 

 gunners. 



In the United States and southern Canada there are about 

 fifteen localities which contain a supply of big game sufficiently 

 large so that a sportsman might therein hunt and kill one head 

 per year with a clear conscience. All others should be closed 

 for five years I Here is the list of availables ; and regarding 

 it there will be about as many opinions as there are big-game 

 sportsmen : 



