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Very big stag, with a Roman nose = Wach-tu-ivich-hu- 

 nema ; very big stag = Haskagit ; very dark stag, with brown 

 on the legs = Wis-o-blich ; big white stag = Wap-tu-quit ; 

 black stag = Mach-tad-u-git ; stag = stecks ; stag with a 

 wide head = Pus-um-wat ; very old stag (sees nothing, has 

 no teeth) = Vis-o-blich ; almost full grown stag = Bis-tim- 

 wat ; good-sized stag {i.e. staggie) = Glon-an-nais ; pricket 

 = Frusanch ; deer = Haliboo ; barren doe = Sigum-tis ; doe, 

 with c^iSi = no-stitk, Hal-a-gii-duk ; young diO^ =■ Pis-age ; 

 calf = Tg-e-adu ; small fawn = Ne-gudu, Punetquhin ; fourteen 

 months' old calf = susanck. 



In 1906 I made the interesting discovery, which is, I think, 

 new to zoologists, namely, that the caribou stag sometimes 

 possesses a sac containing hair in the throat skin. On 

 October 20th I killed a very large stag near Shoe Hill, and 

 whilst removing the neck skin my knife slipped and dis- 

 closed a very curious sac about five inches long and two 

 broad ; this contained growing hair on the inner skin, and 

 the cavity was full of a mass of compressed hair soaking 

 in a watery mucus. This skin bag was situated in a thin 

 vellum of the inner skin in the region of the upper throat. 

 The Indians call this little bag " Piduateh," and the few- 

 white men who know of its existence the " Toler " {i.e. 

 crier or bell), so that it may have some close affinity to 

 the long throat appendage found on the moose and known 

 as the "bell." In the case of the caribou, the hair sac is 

 internal with hair growing inwards, whilst in the moose the 

 ornament is a long piece of hardened skin covered with hair, 

 which hanors from the centre of the throat. The Indians 

 told me that this sac is only found in one in fifty caribou, 

 generally in the males, and that it is sometimes found in the 

 inside skin of the cheek. The existence of this curious 



