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. 178 T H R O U G H T H E M A C K E N Z I E B A S IN
secured a number i n autumn and winter. H a v i n g seen the
skins of numerous p r a i r i e buffalo many years ago, and those
of several of the woodland variety, I t h i n k the only marked
difference I noticed was that the outer h a i r of the latter is
darker i n color, and the inner is of a finer, thicker, and
probably warmer texture than that of the former, while i t is
doubtful i f the average " dressed beef " of either animal of
the same age would materially differ i n weight. In the
winter of 1871- 72 an I n d i a n shot an albino example of the
bison some 35 miles north- west of F o r t M c M u r r a y . The s k in
was throughout of a faint yellowish white color. I have
been repeatedly assured by Indians that the female very
r a r e l y has more than one calf at a b i r t h . They have also
said that, i n winters of deep snow, wolves succeed i n destroyi
n g some animals. They themselves have too often been
g u i l t y of unnecessary slaughter of bison under s i m i l a r conditions,
especially i n former years. In the month of M a r c h,
1879, a small band of Chipewyan Indians discovered traces
of a herd, consisting of twenty animals of various ages, near
the B i r c h Mountain, and the snow being deep they d i d not
suffer even one to escape. None of the flesh, however, was
wasted; a l l of i t was consumed by the party. The Company
never exported any woodland bison skins for sale i n London
or Canada. M r . P . Deschambeault remembers seeing, i n the
early fifties of the last century, two fine albino examples of
the p r a i r i e buffalo i n possession of Chief Factors John
Rowand and James G. Stewart, both of which had been
secured on the plains of the upper Saskatchewan R i v e r.
C A R N I V O R A .
CANADA LYNX— L y n x canadensis Kerr.
T h i s is one of the p r i n c i p a l periodic fur- bearing animals
which regularly increase and decrease i n numbers about
every decade. The experience of observers, largely corroborated
by the Company's London sales, is pretty much as
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| OCR | . 178 T H R O U G H T H E M A C K E N Z I E B A S IN secured a number i n autumn and winter. H a v i n g seen the skins of numerous p r a i r i e buffalo many years ago, and those of several of the woodland variety, I t h i n k the only marked difference I noticed was that the outer h a i r of the latter is darker i n color, and the inner is of a finer, thicker, and probably warmer texture than that of the former, while i t is doubtful i f the average " dressed beef " of either animal of the same age would materially differ i n weight. In the winter of 1871- 72 an I n d i a n shot an albino example of the bison some 35 miles north- west of F o r t M c M u r r a y . The s k in was throughout of a faint yellowish white color. I have been repeatedly assured by Indians that the female very r a r e l y has more than one calf at a b i r t h . They have also said that, i n winters of deep snow, wolves succeed i n destroyi n g some animals. They themselves have too often been g u i l t y of unnecessary slaughter of bison under s i m i l a r conditions, especially i n former years. In the month of M a r c h, 1879, a small band of Chipewyan Indians discovered traces of a herd, consisting of twenty animals of various ages, near the B i r c h Mountain, and the snow being deep they d i d not suffer even one to escape. None of the flesh, however, was wasted; a l l of i t was consumed by the party. The Company never exported any woodland bison skins for sale i n London or Canada. M r . P . Deschambeault remembers seeing, i n the early fifties of the last century, two fine albino examples of the p r a i r i e buffalo i n possession of Chief Factors John Rowand and James G. Stewart, both of which had been secured on the plains of the upper Saskatchewan R i v e r. C A R N I V O R A . CANADA LYNX— L y n x canadensis Kerr. T h i s is one of the p r i n c i p a l periodic fur- bearing animals which regularly increase and decrease i n numbers about every decade. The experience of observers, largely corroborated by the Company's London sales, is pretty much as |
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