ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. 



BAND 6. X:o 4. 



Ttaxonoiiiic Notes about Pale.arctic Reiiideer. 



By 

 EINAR LÖNNBERG. 



With figures in the text. 

 Read May 12th 1909. 



Rangifer tarandus (Lin.) & R. t. fennicus n. 



The Reindeer of the Old World have not been so exten- 

 sively studied by the modern zoologists as those of North 

 America. It is chiefly the Reindeer of Spitzbergen whicli 

 has attracted the interest which some years ago ciilminated 

 in Camerano's monograph^ on this race Rangifer tarandus 

 spetsberg ensis (Andersén).- It must, however, be apparent 

 to any modern student of taxonomic zoology that it hardly 

 could be expected that one and the same race of Reindeer 

 should extend its distribution all över the väst continental 

 area through Northern Europé and Asia, from the Atlantic 

 to the Pacific Ocean. There has also been given some hints 

 about the existence in Eastern Siberia of a separate race, 

 and this will be more fully discussed beJow, but in the first 

 rank it appears desirable to ascertain whether there is more 

 than one race of Reindeer in Northern Europé, not counting 

 the Arctic dwarfed race of Spitzbergen which already has 



^ Ricerche intorno alle Renne delle Isole Spitzberghe. Accad. Reale 

 delle vScienz. di Torino- Anno 1900—1901. 



2 Öfvers. K. Vet. Akad. Förhandl. 1862. Stockholm 1863. 



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