DISTRIBUTION AND HABITS OF THE CARIBOU 95 
September its coat is so brown the animal has been described 
as a brown Caribou. 
Tue Kenar Carrsou of the Kenai Peninsula—but in 
1914 almost extinct in that locality—was described in 1901 
as a distinct species and christened Rangifer stonei. In Sep- 
tember, 1903, the Secretary of Agriculture issued an order 
prohibiting for five years the killing of Caribou on the Kenai 
and Alaska Peninsulas. That prohibition later on was con- 
tinued, but it failed to bring back the species to the Peninsula. 
By a competent authority it is estimated (1914) that only 
thirty individuals survive on the Peninsula. 
Regarding the distribution and habits of Caribou in the 
Canadian Northwest, Mr. J. B. Tyrrell, who, while a member 
of the Canadian Geological Survey, travelled over a greater 
area of the range of that animal than any other observer 
known to me, has kindly furnished the very interesting facts 
quoted below. His letter is dated at Dawson City, Septem- 
ber 10, 1903. 
‘Regarding the portions of the districts of Alberta, Atha- 
basca and Saskatchewan spoken of by you, I am reasonably 
certain that the Woodland Caribou may be found in all the 
thickly wooded tracts. This deer is known to the Cree 
Indians of that country as the ‘Muskeg-Atik,’ or Swamp 
Deer, in recognition of the fact that it lives in the swamps 
and coniferous forests, and not on the plains, or on the coun- 
try studded with groves of poplar. Now, much of Alberta, 
and a great part of Saskatchewan, is dry, open country, and 
into such country Caribou rarely wander. 
“This dry, ‘bluffy’ country extends northwestward 
