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what similar elevation of the frontal region is exhibited in 

 the sknll of B. t. grcenlavdicus, which is, however, of a 

 naiTow type. 



No specimen in collection. 



Q.— Rang-ifer tarandus arcticus. 



Cervus tarandus arcticus, Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer. p. 23, 1829. 



Tarandus arcticus, Baird, Bep. Comm. Patents, 1851, vol. ii, Agric. 

 p. 105, 1852. 



Rangifer arcticus, Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. viii, p. 234, 

 1896 ; Elliot, Synop. Mamm. N. Amer. {Field Mus. Zool. Pub. 

 vol. ii) p. 37, 1901, Cat. Mamm. Field Miis. {op. cit. vol. viii) 

 p. 41, 1907; Grant, 1th Rep. New York Zool. Soc. p. 5, 1902; 

 Stone and Cram, American Animals, p. 53, 1903 ; Hollister, 

 S77iithson. Misc. Collect, vol. Ivi, no. 35, pi. i, 1912 ; Miller, List 

 N. Amer. Mamm. p. 891, 1912. 



Rangifer tarandus arcticus, Lydehher, Deer of All Lands, p. 47, 1898, 

 Great and Small Game of Europe, etc. p. 38, 1901 ; Ward, 

 Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 84, 1910, ed. 7, p. 84. 1914. 



Barren-Ground Caribou. 



Typical locality Fort Enterprise, Macken;^ie district, 

 Canada. 



Size relatively small. Antlers (fig. 44) very long, slender, 

 and rounded, with few points on the expanded portion of the 

 beam, which is separated by a long interval from the third 

 tine; the latter, which is but slightly palmated, generally 

 with one of the basal tines more or less expanded ; back- 

 tine usually, if not always, wanting; female-antlers mucli 

 smaller, simpler, and scarcely curved at all. Gfeneral colour 

 in summer clove-brown, mingled with reddish and yellowish 

 brown, under-parts white ; in winter entire coat dirty white ; 

 lower incisors diminishing suddenly in size from the middle 

 to the outer paii-, which are very small. 



51. 10. 24. 1. Skull and antlers. Arctic America. 



Purchased {Argent), 1851. 



55. 5. 14. 2 (702, iv). Skeleton and antlers. Arctic 

 America; collected by Dr. J. Eae. Purchased, 1855. 



7. 9. 4. 7. Skull and antlers. Baffinland. 



Presented hy Craivford Noble, Esq., 1907. 



