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be diagnosed as a black caribou of the woodland type, with 

 the neck and shoulders, especially in males, much lighter 

 than the body and limbs. In general form it comes 

 very close to B. t. stonei, in which, however, the antlers 

 apj)roach the Barren-Ground type, while the colour is different. 

 No specimen in collection. 



K.— Rangifer tarandus dawsoni. 



Rangifer dawsoni, Seton-Thom/pson, Ottawa Naturalist, vol. xiii, 

 p. 260, 1900 ; Elliot, Synop. Mamm. N. Amer. {Field Mus. Zool. 

 Pub. vol. ii) p. 86, 1901 ; Miller, List N. Amer. Mamm. p. 392, 

 1912. 



Typical locality Graham Island, Queen Charlotte Group. 

 Size smaller ; colour relatively dark, but lighter than in 

 R. t. montanus, the general tint being mouse-colour. 

 No specimen in collection. 



L.— Rangrifer tarandus stonei. 



Rangifer stonei, Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. xiv, p. 143, 

 1901 ; Grant, 7th Bep. Netv York Zool. Soc. p. 5, 1902 ; Stone 

 and Cram, American Animals, Tp. 51, 1903 ; Miller, List N. Amer. 

 Mamm. p. 393, 1912. 



Rangifer tarandus stonei, Lydehher, Great and Small Game of 

 Europe, etc. p. 36, 190f, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1902, vol. ii, p. 361 ; 

 Ward, Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 85, 1910, ed. 7, p. 85, 

 1914. 



Typical locality Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. 



Type in American Museum of Natural History, New 

 York. 



As dark as H. t. montanus, but with a heavy white 

 throat-fringe ; size large ; antlers somewhat larger than 

 those of other members of the Woodland Group, and thus 

 approaching those of the Barren-Ground Group. 



4. 5. 27. 1. Head, mounted. Alaska. Eeference to this 

 race provisional. Purchased, 1904. 



M.— Rangifer tarandus fortidens. 



Rangifer fortidens, HolUster, Smithsvn. Misc. Collect, vol. Ivi, no, 35, 

 p. 3, 1912 ; Miller, List N. Amer. Mamm. p. 392, 1912. 



Typical locality Alberta, Canada. 

 Type in U.S. National Museum, 



