16 PROVINCIAL MUSEUM, 



MAMMALS. 



Entering the Museum on the left are seen various kinds of deer. 



Moose (Alee gigas, Miller). 



Of all the big animals of the North, the " Giant " Moose appeals 

 most strongly to the imagination of everybody in general, and to 

 the sportsman in particular. It is truly the colossus of the North. 



American Elk "Wapiti" (('crnix citnaflcnsis, Erxleben). 



Look at its majestic head, crowned by a pair of mighty antlers ! 

 This animal is distributed over the south-eastern portion of the 

 Mainland, the West Coast of Vancouver Island, in the Comox Dis- 

 trict, and to the Northward. 



Mountain Caribou (Rangifer montanus, Thompson-Set on '). 



Found in the Algach Mountains and White Cap Mountains; a 

 grand bull, and its cow and calf. They range throughout the 

 entire Mainland, from the Southern to Northern Boundary. 



Osborn's Caribou (Rangifer asbumi, Allen). 



Found in the Atlin District, and headquarters of the Stikine 

 River. 



Queen Charlotte Caribou (Rangifer dawsoni, Thompson-Seton ) . 



Found at Virago Sound, Graham Island, of the Queen 

 Charlotte Islands. Caribou, in a state of nature, live on 

 " Reindeer moss," tree-moss, and lichens, and they love ice-covered 

 lakes and ponds as much as any boy. Their loose-jointed and wide- 

 spreading hoofs and enormously developed " dew-claws " have been 

 specially designed by Nature to enable these animals to run freely, 

 as if on snow-shoes, over snow which to any small-hoofed deer would 

 be quite impossible. 



