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hours. The Major had the sagacity to tell the Indian that he also had noticed the absence of the rabbit and proposed to go back, which the guide was only too ready to do.

Jacob Bægert said of the Indians on the California peninsula: "All of these petty nations or tribes have their own countries, of which they are more enamored than other people of theirs."

From the point of view here assumed these areas may be characterized as follows:

Zoütechnic Areas Peoples Predominant Animals

1. Arctic Eskimo

White bear, muskox, lemming, marine mammals.

2. Canadian Athapascan

Reindeer, fox, wolf, and other fur-bearing animals.

3. Atlantic slope Algonquian

Beaver, bear, deer, fox, turkey, fish, mollusks.

4. Louisiana or Gulf Muskhogean

Bear, deer, migratory birds, and gulf-fishes.

5. Plains of the Great West Siouan

Buffalo, bear, deer, and prairie dog.

6. Southeastern Alaska Haida-Tlinkit

Otter, pelagic fish, and aquatic mammals.

7. Columbian region Salish-Chinook

Mixed aquatic and land animals, wild goat and sheep.

8. Interior basin Shoshonean

Elk, antelope, rabbit, wolf.

9. Californian region Very mixed stocks

Inland fish, elk, rabbit.

10. Pueblo region Tanoan-Tewan and Sonoran

Coyote, mountain lion, and rabbit.

11. Middle America Aztec-Maya

Lizard (iguana), subtropical animals, and peccary.

12. Antillean region Arawak-Carib

Rodents, tropical birds, manatee, marine animals, turtles.

13. Cordilleran region Chibcha-Kechua Llama, chinchilla.

14. Upper Amazonian region Jivaro, Peba, Puno, etc.

Birds of beautiful plumage, monkeys, river products.

15. Eastern Brazilian region Tupi-Guarani, Tapuya

Monkeys, agouti, peccary, tapir, sloth, turtles, fish, mollusks.

16. Mato Grosso and southward Mixed peoples of Brazilian and Andean types

Monkeys, agouti, peccary, tapir, inland fish, mollusks.

17. Argentina-Patagonian region Chaco, Pampean, and Patagonian stocks

Vicuña, rhea or American ostrich.

18. Fuegian region Aliculuf, Ona, and Yahgan

Mollusks and other marine products, formerly seal.

The region gives character to the activity, not only by the species of animals predominating there, but by the abundance or scarcity the year round or at certain seasons.