100 HOOFED ANIMALS 
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 36 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. 
Grocrapuic Rancr.—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. 
