250 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 
CERVUS TARANDUS, var. @, SYLVESTRIS. Woodland Caribou. 
Caribou. Turopat, La Hontan, CHaRLeEvorx, &c. 
Rein-deer. Drager, Dozss, &c. 
Attehk. Cree Inpians. Tantseeah. Copper Inprans. 
Of the form of this variety I know little, having seen few of them alive or in an 
entire state when killed. It is much larger than the Barren-Ground Caribou, has 
smaller horns, and even when in good condition is vastly inferior as an article of 
food. The proper country of this deer is a stripe of low primitive rocks, well 
clothed with wood, about one hundred miles wide, and extending at the distance of 
eighty or a hundred miles from the shores of Hudson’s Bay, from Athapescow — 
Lake to Lake Superior. Contrary to the practice of the Barren-Ground Caribou, 
the Woodland variety travels to the southward in the spring. They cross the 
Nelson and Severn Rivers in immense herds in the month of May, pass the sum- 
mer on the low, marshy shores of James’ Bay, and return to the northward, and 
at the same time retire more inland in the month of September. From November 
to April it is rare to meet with one within ninety or a hundred miles of the 
coast. A few deer of this kind frequent the swamps near Cumberland-house 
in the winter, but it is extremely rare indeed for a stray individual to wander on 
that parallel so far to the westward as Carlton-house. Mr. Hutchins mentions 
that he has seen eighty carcasses of this kind of deer brought into York 
Factory in one day, and many others were refused, for want of salt to preserve 
them. These were killed when in the act of crossing Hayes River, and the 
natives continued to destroy them, for the sake of the skins, long after they 
had stored up more meat than they required. Ihave been informed by several 
of the residents at York Factory that the herds are sometimes so large as to 
require several hours to cross the river in a crowded phalanx. The rut takes 
place in the beginning of October, and the doe drops her young in June. Mr. 
Hutchins said that several of the fawns have been brought up at the factories, 
and have become as tame as a pet lamb, but that they all died in the chops of 
the Channel when attempts were made to carry them to England. The same 
gentleman mentions that the buck has a peculiar bag or cist in the lower part of 
the neck about the bigness of a crown-piece, and filled with fine flaxen hair 
neatly coiled round to the thickness of an inch. There is an opening through 
