The Labrador Peninsula 



various species, leaving out much that is of 

 value only to the naturalist, and therefore 

 somewhat foreign to the purpose of this paper. 



As a region for big game the Labrador 

 Peninsula may not compare favorably with 

 the great game preserves of Africa or Asia, 

 and many better hunting grounds may be 

 found in the West and Northwest; but, al- 

 though not a sportsman's paradise, there are 

 many places where good bags may be made, 

 especially in the barren and semi-barren lands 

 of the northern interior. 



Following the natural order, the wolf (Can-is 

 lupus, Linn.) is the first of the game animals 

 met with in Labrador. For some unaccount- 

 able reason wolves are rarely met with any- 

 where in Labrador, even where the great herds 

 of barren-ground caribou afford easy prey. In 

 the more southern regions the scarcity of cari- 

 bou may account for the few wolves found 

 there, few skins being traded at the Hudson 

 Bay posts, and I have never seen or heard a 

 wolf during my journeys through the interior. 



The arctic wolf (Canis lupus, var. albus) is 

 also only occasionally taken in the barren 

 grounds, and does not appear to enter the 

 timbered regions of the interior. 



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