The Labrador Peninsula 



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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 (Cams 



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



^met with in Labrador. For some unaccount- 



table reason wolves are rarely met with any- 



4 where in Labrador, even where the great herds 



j^of barren-ground caribou afford easy prey. In 



|^:|the more southern regions the scarcity of cari- 



M)ou may account for the few wolves found 



,^here, few skins being traded at the Hudson 



ky posts, and I have never seen or heard a 



rolf during my journeys through the interior. 



The arctic wolf (Cams lupus, van albus) is 



ilso only occasionally taken in the barren 



rrounds, and does not appear to enter the 



timbered regions of the interior. 



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