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Caribou -Hunting. 



CARIBOU MIGRATING. 



take alarm at what he sees. Where his haunts have been unmo- 

 lested, he will unconcernedly trot up within range of the rifle. I am 

 inclined to believe that a great deal of this apparent fearlessness is 

 due to defective vision. If this is so, he is compensated by having a 

 marvelous gift of scent, quite equal, if not superior, to that of the 

 moose. And well for the caribou that he is thus gifted. The wolf 

 follows the herds throughout all their wanderings. On the plains or 

 on the hills, where the poor caribou retire to rear their young, he is 

 constantly lurking near, ready to pounce on any straggler, or — if in 

 sufficient numbers — to boldly attack the herd. 



The woodland caribou is very swift, and cunning in devices to 

 escape his pursuers. His gait is a long, swinging trot, which he per- 

 forms with his head erect and scut up; and there is no animal of the 



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