202 THE LARGE AMERICAN MAMMALS 
the limit of trees, embracing the Barren Grounds of northern 
Canada, the great arctic archipelago, Ellesmere, Melville 
and Grant Lands and Greenland. This region is the home of 
the musk-ox and three species of arctic caribou. 
The Alaska-Yukon Region, inhabited by the moose, white 
mountain sheep, mountain goat, four species of caribou and 
half a dozen species of Alaska brown, grizzly and black bears. 
Northern Ontario, Quebec, Labrador and Newfoundland, 
inhabited by moose, woodland caribou, white-tailed deer and 
black bear. 
British Columbia, inhabited by a magnificent big-game 
fauna embracing the moose, elk, caribou of two species, 
white sheep, black sheep, big-horn sheep, mule deer, white- 
tailed deer, mountain goat, grizzly, black and inland white 
bears. 
The Srerra Madre of Mexico, containing jaguar, puma, 
grizzly and black bears, mule deer, white-tailed deer, antelope, 
mountain sheep and peccaries. 
I have necessarily omitted all those regions of the United 
States and Canada which still contain a remnant of big 
game, but which have been literally “shot to pieces” by 
gunners. 
In the United States and southern Canada there are about 
fifteen localities which contain a supply of big game sufficiently 
large so that a sportsman might therein hunt and kill one head 
per year with a clear conscience. All others should be closed 
for five years! Here is the list of availables; and regarding 
it there will be about as many opinions as there are big-game 
sportsmen: 
