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and other points on the same island.* The same author states that 

 traces of reindeer were observed near Cape Riley and Cape Grinnell.'^ 

 McCormick observed tracks on Baring Bay, North Devon, in August, 

 1852.^ The presence of caribou on Russell Island is recorded by Os- 

 born, who observed tracks near Cape Walker in the spring of 1851.'^ 

 M'Clintock noted, the species at Port Kennedy and Brentford Bay.*^ 

 Kennedy mentions seeing many tracks near Cape Garry, North Som- 

 erset.'' During Anderson and Stewart's journey down Back River in 

 the summer of 1855 caribou were found to be numerous about Clinton- 

 Colden and Aylmer lakes ; and the species was observed on Adelaide 

 Peninsula.^5' In the summer and fall of 1879 the party of Frederick 

 Schwatka, searching for relics of Sir John Franklin, found large 

 numbers of caribou on King William Island and on the lower part of 

 Back River. During Warburton Pike's journey northward into the 

 Barren Grounds from the eastern part of Great Slave Lake in the 

 autumn of 1889, caribou were first met with on Lake Camsell, about 

 70 miles north of Great Slave Lake, on September 15. The animals 

 were then on their way south, and many were seen during the remain- 

 der of September as the party traveled northward.^ In notes on the 

 fauna of the country lying between the eastern part of Athabaska 

 Lake and Churchill River, explored in the summer of 1892, J. B. 

 Tyrrell says : 



The Barren Ground caribou * * * comes south in winter to the south end 

 of Reindeer Lake and the upper portion of Mudjatick and Foster rivers. It 

 travels north in spring to the Barren Grounds, but a very few animals are 

 occasionally left behind, one having been shot in July near the north end of 

 Cree Lake.^" 



Fort Fond du Lac is stated by him to be " on one of the principal 

 lines of travel of the Barren Ground caribou, in their regular migra- 

 tions north and south." During the summer of 1893, while travel- 

 ing northward between Athabaska Lake and Chesterfield Inlet, the 

 Tyrrell brothers first saw Barren Ground caribou on July 28 on 

 Barlow Lake; on the next day, on the shores of Carey Lake, a few 

 miles below and in about latitude 62° 15', they saw a herd estimated 

 to contain from 100,000 to 200,000 individuals.^ In 1891, during 



« Journ. Voyage to Baffin Bay, II, pp. 106, 147, 151, 1852. 



& Ibid., I, p. 310, II, p. XII, 1S52. 



c Mccormick's Voyages, II, p. 131, 1884. 



Arctic Journal, p. 220, 1852. 

 ^ Voyage of the Fooo, p. 167, 1860. 

 f Narrative Second Voyage Prince Albert, p. 129, 1853. 



Journ. Roy. Geog. Soc, XXVI, p. 25, 1856. 



Schwa tka's Search, p. 196 and elsewhere, 1881. 

 * Barren Ground of Northern Canada, p. 41, et seq., 1892. 



Ann. Rept. Can. Geol. Surv., VIII (new ser.), p. 13D, 1896. 

 ^ Ibid., p. 63D, 1896. 



^ Ann. Rept. Can. Geol. Surv., IX (new ser.), p. 165F, 1898. 



