THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
penetrate their range, discharging into the Yukon at considerable 
distances away from Dawson. (Frozen rivers are the highways during 
winter.) 
“ The Yukon River, bordered on both sides by some fifty miles of 
timbered foothills, keep those two herds apart. The near edge of the 
western herd was within fifty miles of Dawson last winter, but was 
unmolested except by miners in its vicinity, and a few Indians who 
hunted for the limited Dawson demand. The eastern herd (the most 
familiar) wintered last winter in the Mackenzie River watershed, three 
hundred miles away from Dawson. As reported by the North-West 
Mounted Police Patrol of four men and an Indian interpreter, which 
annually makes, during winter time, a six hundred mile trip from 
Dawson to Fort McPherson on the Mackenzie, and back, for more 
than two hundred miles they travelled through a country which was 
thickly occupied by this herd. The patrol left Dawson on the first of 
January, 1909, and got back about the middle of March. The Herschel 
Island patrol meets the Dawson patrol at Fort McPherson, and mail, 
etc., from the whalers, police and others wintering at Herschel is 
exchanged for mail, all kinds of reading matter, government docu- 
ments and so forth, brought from Dawson.” 
Tarandus rangifer granti (Allen). In the autumn of 1901, Mr Andrew Stone 
found a race of Arctic caribou on the Alaskan Peninsula in the open country 
beyond the eastern limit of trees. It was named by Dr J. A. Allen R. granti , 
in honour of Mr Madison Grant. In summer it ranges up the mountains 
and in winter descends to the lower barriers near the coast. Formerly 
these caribou are said to have existed on Unga Island, where they are now 
nearly extinct, as is also the case on Unimak Island at the extreme western 
point. Of the fifteen specimens in the American Museum of Natural History, 
the horns of the males are similar to T. r. arcticus but very short, whilst the 
skulls are slightly larger. The body markings are similar. 
Tarandus rangifer stonei. Mr Madison Grant regards this as the largest 
member of the “barren-ground” groups, but in most of its characters it 
seems to be allied to T. r. osborni , which he includes in the “woodland” 
group. In fact, the horns, which are the principal feature of the character- 
ization of this sub-species, are said to be remarkable for the length of the 
tines. This certainly is the case in the specimens found in the New York 
Natural History Museum, brought from the Kenai by Mr Andrew Stone, 
but such is not the case in specimens brought from the same area by 
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