Descriptions of East Asiatic Mammals 347 
Fig. 75. Asiatic Moose, Alces aloes. 
in the great forest belt of the temperate zone. The southward 
limit may be that of larch and birch; northward it reaches the 
limit of evergreen forest margining the tundra. The Moose is 
reputed to be absent from the lower Amur region east of the 
Bureja Mountains. 
Reindeer or Caribou, genus Rangifer, include the single 
species R. tarandns. This genus, especially its American repre- 
sentatives, has been divided into a considerable number of 
geographical races. In northeastern Asia only two need be con- 
sidered : the Siberian Caribou, R. t. sibiricus, of the Obi Basin, 
and the larger Kamchatka Caribou, R. t. phylarchus. Caribou 
are the only deer in which the females as well as the males grow 
