CARIBOU-HUNTING. 



By CHARLES C. WARD. 



TO determine accurately the geographical distribution of an 

 animal of such wandering habits as the caribou, or American 

 reindeer (Cervus tarandtis — Linn.; Rangifer Caribou — Au- 

 dubon and Bachman), is extremely difficult. Every few years make 

 a change. One year finds the species receding from haunts pre- 

 viously occupied and encroaching upon grounds hitherto unfre- 

 quented ; and in some districts, from various causes, we find them 

 exterminated. 



I may say, however, that the caribou largely inhabits Labrador 

 and Newfoundland, still exists in considerable numbers in the prov- 

 ince of New Brunswick, in the wilderness regions of the Resti- 

 gouche, in the country watered by the upper south-west branch of the 

 Miramichi, also on Cairns River — another branch of the Miramichi. 

 He is also abundant at the head-waters of Green River, in the county 

 of Madawaska. In Queens County, he is found at head of Grand 

 Lake, Salmon River. In Kent County, he is again met with on the 

 Kishanaguak and Kishanaguaksis, also frequently on the Bathurst 

 road, between Bathurst and Chatham. A few years ago, the animals 

 were quite numerous in Charlotte County, and are still occasionally 

 met with. In the adjoining province of Nova Scotia their numbers 

 are gradually decreasing, their strongholds at present being confined 

 to the Cobequid Mountains and the uplands of Cape Breton. Going 

 westward and south of the St. Lawrence, the caribou is again met 

 with in Rimouski, his haunts extending southward along the borders 

 of the State of Maine and the country south of the city of Quebec 

 to New Hampshire. The moose is found with him all through this 



