Abstract
THE volume before us is essentially a hunter's book, and will be most appreciated by those to whom all incidents of the chase are gratifying. Nevertheless, in Mr. Sheldon the crude hunter is blended and tempered with the field-naturalist, so that his range of observation often goes beyond the requirements of sport. Also, as a hunter, on this occasion he took up the róle of specialist, and set out to kill selectively and not indiscriminately. His quarry was the mountain sheep of the Upper Yukon basin; for it was incidentally his object to clear up the relationship of the local varieties or subspecies of this animal. In the event he is able to show that the three forms Ovis dalli, O. fannini, and O. stonei merge imperceptibly into each other.
The Wilderness of the Upper Yukon: a Hunter's Explorations for Wild Sheep in Sub-Arctic Mountains.
By Charles Sheldon. Pp. xxi + 354. (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1911.) Price 12s. 6d. net.
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L., G. The Wilderness of the Upper Yukon: a Hunter's Explorations for Wild Sheep in Sub-Arctic Mountains . Nature 89, 83–84 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089083a0
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