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Life-histories of Northern Animals 



Fig. go — Sketches of Norway Reindeer. 



was laying up trouble for himself, came to the rescue and caugnt 

 the end of the other rope. 



Whereupon, the Caribou changed his behaviour and stood 

 perfectly still, with head down, as though he were quite a dif- 

 ferent animal. 



STRANGE In the Abitibi country, and doubtless elsewhere, the Wood- 

 land Caribou has the habit, already ascribed to the Moose, of 

 racing in a circle during a wind storm. George Linklater tells 

 me that he has witnessed this several times. 



FOOD 



The Woodland species is more omnivorous than the moss- 

 eating Barren-ground Caribou, as most green things are in its 

 diet. In Norway the Reindeer is said to eat the Lemmings, 

 or Moss-mice, but I find no record of such a depraved habit in 

 any American species. 



