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 reference to all of the activities of industrial life. It will interest the reader to note the close connection between zoölogic areas and Indian stock areas. Indeed, Merriam proposes to include the tribes of men among the animal species predominant in his groupings. For instance, his list for the Arctic is as follows:

A.—Exclusively Arctic

Eskimo Homo

Polar bear Thalarctos maritimus

Barren ground bear Ursus richardsoni

Muskox Ovibos moschatus

Barren ground caribou Rangifer groenlandicus

Arctic fox Vulpes lagopus

Arctic hare Lepus glacialis

Lemming Myodes obensis

Lemming Cuniculus torquatus

Arctic red-back mouse Evotomys rutilus

Parry's spermophile Spermophilus empetra

B.—Common to Arctic and Hudsonian

Wolverine Gulo luscus

Gray wolf Canis griseus

Ermine Putorius erminea

It is not difficult to understand how this came about. Where an animal becomes so necessary to a people that all their activities are in reference to it, they will not wander far away from it; their thoughts will be suggested by it, and even their totems refer to it. If by some stress a tribe of another stock be driven into the area, they drop their old habits and become assimilated to the region.

A good illustration of this is furnished by a story once told by Major Powell, concerning an Indian guide whom he had employed in the mountain regions of northern California. They tramped together for a long time until at last the Indian sat down and refused to go farther. When the distinguished traveler inquired the reason, it was a long while before he got an answer; but finally the Indian said that he had not seen a rabbit for some