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moment's examination of the types is sufficient to place those 

 species in their respective groups. The antlers of the Kenai 

 Caribou are massive, with many long tines on the terminal 

 half of the main beam. They have & points, and a tree-top 

 effect when seen from the front. Grant's Caribou, however, 

 has a long and naked main beam running up to a terminal 

 bunch of short tines, a wide-open, armchair appearance, and 

 only 27 points, all strongly characteristic of the Barren 

 Ground type. The superior size of the Kenai Caribou is 

 confirmatory of the testimony of the antlers of both. 



GEOGRAPHIC RANGE. The centre of abundance of the 

 Barren Ground Caribou group is midway between the eastern 

 end of Great Slave Lake and the southeastern extremity of 

 Great Bear Lake. This, however, is not the geographic centre 

 of its distribution. The great semi-annual migration is about 

 on a line that might be drawn between Cape Bathurst and the 

 eastern extremity of Great Slave Lake, and undoubtedly 

 the great mass of Caribou on the mainland east of the Mac- 

 kenzie assemble along that route. 



Another line of migration, also from northwest to south- 

 east, passes eastward of Dawson City, and sufficiently near 

 it that great numbers of Caribou carcasses have been sledded 

 into the meat-markets of that city. In 1901 a search of 

 those markets revealed 5,225 pounds of moose and Caribou 

 meat on hand at one time. Along the arctic coast between 

 Point Barrow and the mouth of the Mackenzie, tens of thou- 

 sands of Caribou have been killed by natives and sold to 

 whaling ships wintering along that coast. As a natural con- 

 sequence the herds have nearly disappeared from that locality. 



