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MAMMALS OF N O R T H E R N CANADA 259
stricted on lines similar to tliose pursued by the Company
for many years subsequent to 1821. Greater latitude might
be accorded to hunting in now unknown and not easily accessible
parts, where it probably abounds; but except for food
absolutely required no one should be permitted to trap or
shoot beaver out of seasoti. It is useless making rules and
regulations, however, unless they be strictly enforced. The
woodland buffalo is now receiving some well- deserved attention
in this regard, and it is about time that the musk ox
should be protected from indiscriminate slaughter solely for
the sake of his head or hide; there should be a seasonable
limit imposed upon hunters thereof. Neither should the
mountain goat and sheep, the elk, and the valuable food
animals— the moose and woodland caribou— be neglected in
this connection. And although the Barren Ground reindeer
is still abundant, yet the northern Indians should not be
permitted to continue or resume their ancient vicious course
of reckless and indiscriminate slaughter of them whenever
the opportunity appeared.
From Fort Anderson and nearly every other post, including
Fort Yukon, skulls and other parts of the beaver were
obtained for transmission to the Smithsonian Institution at
Washington. While stationed at Fort St. James, British
Columbia, in 1SS7 and 18S9, I sent to the same institution
two embryo skins taken from the uterus of a female killed
in the vicinity early in i f ay ( there were five in all), together
with that of a two- weeks- old example captured in the
latter end of the same month. As to albinos, they are very
rare, but I have seen perhaps as many as ten skins in course
of my long residence in the North- West Territories. I have
also observed quite a number of fine dark skins of the beaver
in various parts of tbe country. I think those taken by the
natives of Quebec who resort to Bersimis post, in the Gulf of
St. Lawrence, are among the very finest. Labrador, East
Main, and other Hudson Bay posts, also furnish a small
number of similar pelts. As a rule, those which frequent
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| OCR | MAMMALS OF N O R T H E R N CANADA 259 stricted on lines similar to tliose pursued by the Company for many years subsequent to 1821. Greater latitude might be accorded to hunting in now unknown and not easily accessible parts, where it probably abounds; but except for food absolutely required no one should be permitted to trap or shoot beaver out of seasoti. It is useless making rules and regulations, however, unless they be strictly enforced. The woodland buffalo is now receiving some well- deserved attention in this regard, and it is about time that the musk ox should be protected from indiscriminate slaughter solely for the sake of his head or hide; there should be a seasonable limit imposed upon hunters thereof. Neither should the mountain goat and sheep, the elk, and the valuable food animals— the moose and woodland caribou— be neglected in this connection. And although the Barren Ground reindeer is still abundant, yet the northern Indians should not be permitted to continue or resume their ancient vicious course of reckless and indiscriminate slaughter of them whenever the opportunity appeared. From Fort Anderson and nearly every other post, including Fort Yukon, skulls and other parts of the beaver were obtained for transmission to the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. While stationed at Fort St. James, British Columbia, in 1SS7 and 18S9, I sent to the same institution two embryo skins taken from the uterus of a female killed in the vicinity early in i f ay ( there were five in all), together with that of a two- weeks- old example captured in the latter end of the same month. As to albinos, they are very rare, but I have seen perhaps as many as ten skins in course of my long residence in the North- West Territories. I have also observed quite a number of fine dark skins of the beaver in various parts of tbe country. I think those taken by the natives of Quebec who resort to Bersimis post, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, are among the very finest. Labrador, East Main, and other Hudson Bay posts, also furnish a small number of similar pelts. As a rule, those which frequent |
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