10 ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 6. N:0 4. 



miich different from that of a Swedish Reindeer; the great 

 widtli between the lateral ends of the occipital cond3^]es viz. 

 80 mm. (the direction of the condyles cannot be ascertained 

 as they ha ve been partly chopped off.). The antiers of this 

 skull are strong and heavy, the beam rather flattened, the 

 bez-tines flat and palmated, both brow-tines palmated and 

 converging. 



The direction of the antiers is more erect than in the 

 typical Lapland Reindeer, and reminds somewhat of the Red 

 Deer, the more so as the beam is almos straight. The length 

 of the antiers is 91 cm. and the greatest spread only 78 cm. 



From the description above it must be apparent that 

 the Finland Reindeer differs in such a high degree from the 

 typical Rangifer tarandus (Li^^.) that it must be considered 

 as a separate subspecies and for this I wish to propose the 

 name Rangijer tarandus fennicus as tlie centre of its distribu- 

 tions is Fennia. 



Before, however, the question about the distribution of 

 this Finland Reindeer is discussed it seems suitable to draw 

 the ätten tion to some analogies between it and some Ameri- 

 can races of Reindeer or Caribou with regard to same cra- 

 nial characteristics. In doing so I have only been able to 

 use the figures published in various papers of Allén and in 

 Madison Grants monograph »The Caribou», ^ as the Ameri- 

 can authors, as a rule, have contented themselves with the 

 description of externa! features. According to these figures 

 Rangifer terrcenovoe Bångs, Rangifer montanus Seton and Ran- 

 gifer oshorni Allén- appear to have their nasals elevated 

 above the maxillaries in a similar way as R. t. fennicus. All 

 these races belong to the Woodland Caribou group. On the 

 other hand Rangifer arcticus Richardson has the nasals, a t 

 least in front, very flat. The same appears to be the case as 

 well with Rangifer granti Allén and R. sionei Allén, al- 

 though the figures do not show this so plainly. Rangifer 

 groenlandicus Kerr and R. spetsbergensis (Andersen) have 

 flat nasals, like the typical Rangifer tarandus (Lin.). There 

 appears thus to be a resemblance in this respect between the 

 Barren Gr ound Caribous and the Reindeer of the treeless 



^ Seventh Ann. Rep. of the New- York Zool. Soc. 1902. 



^ Here and in the following the American denomination is used, al- 

 though certainly at least some of these ^^species» hardly deserve to be 

 regarded but as subspecies. 



