Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo13amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ARCTIC GAME NOTES 15 mal's stores of roots than for the animal itself. The bear's stomach is much more apt to contain masu roots (Polygonum Bistorta) than flesh. A bear must needs be very active to catch enough spermophiles above ground in spring and early summer, and if car- casses are not to be found the bears evi- dently suffer from hunger at this season when they can neither dig roots for them- selves in the frozen ground nor dig out the spermophiles and their stores. One specimen was killed by an Eskimo of our party on Dease River east of Great Bear Lake, after the bear had gorged him- self on a cache of caribou meat. A few were met with in the Coppermine country, but through the Cor- onation Gulf region they are apparently rare. The Eskimo say that the species is not found on Vic- toria Island. Fortu- nately for the brown bear's longevity, there is little market for his skin and neither Eskimo nor Indians make a special effort to hunt him, the speci- mens obtained in gen- eral being picked up Mosquitos in the Colville River delta, Arctic Alaska, -, about 71° N. Lat., July 5, 1909. The Eskimo, Natkusiak, On summer caribou had stood still for a minute or two and refrained from hunts. brushing them off while loading our umiak
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