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B.— Rangcifer tarandus fennicus. 



Eangifer tarandus fennicus, Lb7inherg, Arkiv Zool. vol. vi, no. 4, 

 p. 10, 1909; Ward, Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 84, 1910, 

 ed. 7, p. 84, 1914. 



Eangifer fennicus, Miller, Cat. Mamm. West. Europe, p. 981, 1912. 



Typical locality Tornea, Lappmark, Finland. 



The range is probably now restricted to the wooded 

 portions of Finland, eastward to the Kola Peninsula, but 

 seems to have formerly extended westwards into the wooded 

 portion of northern Sweden where this race may be repre- 

 sented by the large woodland breed of tame reindeer found 

 in certain districts. 



Type in the Eoyal Swedish Museum of Natural History. 



Size larger than in R. t. tarandus ; skull with the nasal 

 bones narrow and highly arched, and the teeth relatively 

 small, the length of the upper series of cheek-teeth being 

 about 3|- inches (85 mm.), and that of the lower series 

 about 3y^g inches (90 mm.). 



No specimen in collection. 



C— Rang-ifer tarandus platyrhynchus. 



Cervus (Tarandus) platyrhynchus, VroliJc, Niewwe Vcrhandl. Krou. 



Nederl. Inst., Eerste Klasse, pt. 2, p. 160, 1829. 

 Cervus tarandus, forma spetsbergensis, Andersen, Ofvers. Vet.-Ah. 



Forhandl. vol. xix, p. 457, 1862 ; Nitsche, Jahresb. Ver. nat. 



Wiirtt. 1893, p. 111. 

 [Rangifer arcticus] , var. spitzbergensis, Murray, Geogr. Distrib. 



Mamm. p. 154, 1866. 



Rangifer tarandus spetzbergensis, Z/i/^^^^"^'^'"' Deer of All Lands, p. 41, 



1898. 

 Rangifer spitzbergensis, Camerano, Mcni. Ace. Set. Torino, ser. 2, 



vol. li, p. 159, 1902; Grant, 1th Rep. Neto Yorh Zool. Soc. 



p. 1902 ; Trouessart, Faune Mamm. Europe, p. 232, 1910. 

 Rangifer platyrhynchus. Miller, Cat. Mamnu West. Europe, p. 985, 



1912. 



Typical locality Spitsbergen, to which island this race is 

 confined. 



Size considerably less than in the typical race ; nasal 

 bones of skull with the profile little arched, and the two 

 extremities expanded and the middle portion constricted ; 

 cheek-teeth relatively as large as in the typical race. 



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