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NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



[l^o. 27. 



Eiver, caribou were found to be rather common at tke mouth of 

 Hood Eiver j« and were noted also on Parry Bay and at Point Turn- 

 again.^ During Franklin's second journey, reindeer were killed 

 near Fort Franklin, Great Bear Lake.^ J. C. Ross states that great 

 numbers were seen about the Isthmus of Boothia.'^ 



During Richardson's journey along the Arctic coast east of the Mac- 

 kenzie, in the summer of 1848, he observed the species near Liverpool 

 Bay in August ; ^ and on Darnley Bay later in the same month ; f and 

 saw many at Bloody Fall, on the lower Coppermine, on September 5.^ 

 The skeleton of a Barren Ground caribou from Fort Confidence, prob- 

 ably taken during the same trip, is described by Richardson.'^ Doctor 

 Rae saw many caribou on Victoria Land near Admiralty Island about 

 the middle of August, 1851.^ During the voyage of the Investigator 

 Armstrong records that tracks of reindeer were seen near Nelson 

 Head, the southern extremity of Baring Land [Banks Land], Sep- 

 tember 7, 1850; three of the animals were seen on Prince of Wales 

 Strait, near Princess Royal Islands, January 6, 1851. Some were seen 

 on Banks Land, near Prince Alfred Cape, August 19, 1851 ; and 50 or 

 60 near Mercy Bay, Banks Land, October 7, 1851 ; at the latter harbor 

 112 of the animals were killed between the autumn of 1851 and the 

 summer of 1853.^' At the winter quarters of the Enterprise in Cam- 

 bridge Bay, Victoria Land, CoUinson states that large herds had 

 gathered by October 9, 1852, and were waiting for the ice to form a 

 bridge for their passage to the continent ; by November 24 all had left, 

 and during the spring of 1853 the species was first seen April 6, when 

 4 individuals were observed at Finlayson Islands, near Cambridge 

 Bay, crossing the strait from the mainland northward.^ The presence 

 of caribou on Prince Patrick Island is recorded by M'Dougall, who 

 states that some were killed by Mecham near Cape Hay.^ Pie also 

 records the animal from near Cape Russell, Melville Island ; and from 

 Byam Martin, Moore, and Baker islands.*'^ Sutherland records the 

 presence of the animals during the summer of 1851 on the north shore 

 of Cornwallis Land; and near Point Decision; Disappointment Bay; 



« Narrative Journey to Polar Sea, p. 374, 1828. 

 & Ibid., pp. 383, 387, 1823. 



« Narrative Second Expedition to Polar Sea, p. 60, 1828. 

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

 <5 Arctic Searching Expedition, I, p. 251, 1851. 

 abid., p. 281, 1851. 

 & Ibid., p. 318, 1851. 



Zool. of Herald, Fossil Mammals, p. 115, 1854. 

 ^ Journ. Roy. Geog. Soc, XXII, p. 91, 1852. 



i Narrative Discovery Northwest Passage, pp. 210, 297, 391, 473, 477, 1857. 



Journ. H. M. S. Enterprise, pp. 244-253, 1889. 

 ^-Voyage of Resolute to Arctic Regions, p. 291, 1857. 

 «i Ibid., pp. 266, 267, 295, 1857. 



