42 NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. [No. 22, 



boat for about a quarter of a mile. He would frequently stop and 

 wade a short distance toward the boat, at short intervals spreading- 

 and contracting the white patch on his throat laterally into an oval 

 disk, so abruptly as to give the appearance of flashes of light. He 

 finally grew tired of following us and dropped behind. This was the 

 last one scon. 



James Clark Ross recorded reindeer from Cape Warrender, north 

 shore of Barrow Strait, and from the coast of North Somerset," and 

 observed them in great numbers on the Isthmus of Boothia.'' Dr. Rae 

 observed them migrating northward about the 1st of ^Nlarch, near 

 Repulse Ba}'," and found them on the west coast of Melville Peninsula 

 as far as Eraser Bay.'^ Lyon recorded them from Duke of York Bay, 

 Southampton Island.'' Schwatka's party killed large numbers between 

 Camp Daly and King William Land in ls79 and 1880.-^ During the 

 summer of 1893 the Tyrrell brothers, of the Canadian Geological Sur- 

 vey, saw on the shores of Carey Lake, about 450 miles northwest of 

 Fort Churchill, a herd which thej^ estimated to contain from one to two 

 hundred thousand individuals. s" On their exploring trip northward 

 through the interior of Keewatin, in 1894, they first met with Barren 

 Ground caribou, near Ennadai Lake, on August 14. The animals 

 were then moving southward in large numbers.'' 



The southern range of Barren Ground caribou, on the west coast 

 of Hudson Bay, may be said to be limited by Churchill River. Even 

 in former j^ears these caribou were seldom known to cross that river,*' 

 and they are still killed within a few miles of Fort Churchill. Farther 

 inland they reach the south end of Reindeer Lake.-' 



Descrtj)tion. — Adult male in summer pelage, killed on the Barren 

 Grounds about 25 miles south of Cape Eskimo August 10: General 

 color of upperparts and head dull brown; face dull reddish brown; 

 legs dusky brown with an indistinct ashy stripe on inner side of fore leg, 

 and of hind leg below the heel; a lateral stripe of dusky brown where 

 the hairs of the belly and sides iiieet, separated • from the color of 

 upperparts i)y an indistinct ashy stripe; chest dusky; belly and ven- 

 tral surface of tail white; a small white patch on rump, divided liy a 

 narrow stripe of brown extending from dorsal area to tip of tail. A 

 white disk on throat 15 inches long and (when spread) about 10 inches 



« Parry's Third Voyage, Appendix, p. 94, 1826. 



''Appendix to Ross's Second Voyage, p. xvii, 1835. 



« Narrative of an Expedition to tiie Shores of the Arctic Sea, p. 93, 1850. 



f'Ibid., p. 149, 1850. 



« Lyon's Private Journal, p. 46, 1824. 



/Gilder, Schwatka's Search, Introduction, p. viii, and ol.«ewhere, 1881. 



ffAnn. Rept. Can. Geol. Surv., 1896, IX (new ser.), p. 165F (1898). 



''Ibid., p. 19F (1898). 



« Hearne, Journey « * * to the Northern Ocean, p. ;?25, 1795. 



./Tyrrell, Forest and Stream, XLIII, No. 4, p. 70, July 28, 1894. 



