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coast grows much larger, and differs in colour 

 from the animal found on the inland mountains ; 

 but climatal differences are quite sufficient to 

 account for it. The habits of the wapiti are 

 too well known to need any description. 



WOODLAND CARIBOU REINDEER (Rangifer Cari- 

 bou, And. and Bach.). The Caribou inhabits 

 the high ridges of the Cascade Mountains, the 

 Galton range, and western slope of the Rocky 

 Mountains. I have no positive proof of its exist- 

 ence north of the Eraser, but I think there can 

 be but little doubt, if any, that its range is 

 through the entire mountain district, extending 

 into Russian America. 



VIRGINIAN DEER ( Census Virginianus, Bodd) ; 

 WHITE-TAILED DEER (Cervus leucurus, Douglas). 

 Whether these are really distinct species I cannot 

 say, but the small grey deer so common on the 

 plains about Nesqually and in the timber belting 

 the Sumass prairies, I believe to be Cervus leucurus. 

 I obtained two specimens on the Diamond Tree 

 pass, a high mountain ridge ascending sharply up 

 from the Sumass prairie, in December one a 

 young male, the other a doe heavy in fawn and 

 have no doubt about their being the above species. 

 I have also seen this deer on Vancouver Island, 

 and in the Kootanie region. 



