LÖNNBERG, TAXONOMIC NOTES ABOUT PALEARCTIC REINDEER. 3 



In this museum are kept some skulls of wild Reindeer 

 which have been shot in April 1836 by Wegelin at the 

 mountain Långfjället in the parish Särna, northernmost Da- 

 lecarlia. 



These skulls agree with the skulls of wild Norwegian 

 Reindeer, and it must be remembered that in former days 

 the area of distribution of the wild Reindeer in northern 

 Dalecarlia was fuUy continuous with that in southern Nor- 

 way where such animals still exist, although not so nume- 

 rously as formerly, and also partly mixed with runaway tame 

 Reindeer which have been introduced from the north. 



Fig. 1. Lateral view of a skull of a wild Swedish Reindeer {Rangifer 

 tarandus. Lin.) ef shot in Särna, Dalecarlia. 



The cranial characteristics of the wild Reindeer skulls 

 collected by Wegelin agree also with the same of the tame 

 Mountain Reindeer (Swedish: »fjällren») of Swedish Lapland. 



Rangifer tarandus Lin. comprises thus the now extinct 

 Reindeer of the Swedish fells formerly distributed south- 

 ward to Dalecarha, the still existing wild Norwegian Rein- 

 deer, and the tame Mountain Reindeer of Swedish Lapland 

 and adjoining parts of Norway and probably northern Fin- 

 land as well. 



To the east of the Scandinavian peninsula wild Rein- 

 deer are, or were to be found in northern Finland and their 

 distribution extended towards the north into the peninsula 

 of Kola and southwards along the Finnish-Russian frontier 



