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
