40 RANGIFER. ALCE. 



Type locality. Greenland. 



Geogr. Dtstr. Restricted to Greenland, if distinct from the animal 

 obtained on the mainland, which cannot as yet be said to be com- 

 pletely established. 



85. Rangifer arcticus (Richardson). 



Cervus tarandus var. arctica Rich., Faun. Bor. Amer., Mamm., 



1829, p. 241. 

 Rangifer dawsoni Seton-Thompson, Ottawa Nat., xiii, 1900, p. 

 260. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 11, 1901, 

 p. 36. Zool. Ser. Osgood, N. Am. Faun., No. 21, 1901, p. 26. 

 Rangifer arcticus Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 

 II, 1901, p. 37. 

 Barren Ground Caribou. 



Type locality. Eastern Canada; shores of Hudson Bay? 

 Geogr. Distr. Barren grounds of Arctic America north of the 

 tree limit, to the shores and islands of the Arctic Ocean, Greenland 

 excepted, if the specific distinctness of the mainland animal can be 

 proven. 



86. *Rangifer pearyi Allen. 



Rangifer pearyi Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1902, 

 p. 409. 

 Peary's Caribou. 



Type locality. Ellesmere Land, N. Lat. 79°. 



Geogr. Distr. Known only from the type locality. 



Color. Pure white, except an oval grayish brown patch over 

 posterior half of dorsal surface; legs and feet white; ears tinged with 

 gray. Flat skin, in winter pelage. 



Measurements. Total length of fiat skin, 1660. 



G^nus 39. Alee. Moose. 



Alee Frisch, Das Natur-Syst. vierfiiss. Thiere, in Tabellen, 3 Tab. 



Gen., 1775. H. Smith, Griff. Anim. Kingd., v, 1827, p. 303. 



Type Cervus alces Linnaeus. 

 Alces Jard., Nat. Libr., Mamm., iii, 1835, p. 125. Type Alces 



americanus Jardine. 

 Alcelaphus Glog., Handb- u. Hilfsb. Naturg., 1841, p. 143. (nee 



de Blainville, 1816.) 

 Paralces Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1902, p. 160. 



♦Specific distinctness of this animal by no means established. 



