980 



UNGULATA 



KEY TO THE EUROPEAN SPECIES OP RANGIFER. 



Size small, upper length of skull less than 



225 mm. (Spitzbergen) R. platyrhynclms, p. 



Size large, upper length of skull about 270- 



300 mm. 



Upper length of skull in adult male 270- 



290 mm. ; upper tooth-row about 95 mm. 



(treeless alpine portions of Norway and 



formerly of Sweden, now rare except in 



captivity) R. tarandus, p. 980. 



Upper length of skull in adult male about 

 300 mm. ; upper tooth-row about 85 mm. 

 (wooded portions of northern Pinnland 

 and formerly of northern Sweden) R. fennicus, jj. 981. 



985. 



RANGIFER TARANDUS Linnteus. 



1758. [Cervus] tarandus Linnteus, Syst. Nat., i, 10th ed., p. 67. 



1789. \_Cervus tarandits] a rangifer Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 13th ed., p. 177. 



1827. Tarandtis lapiMnum Billberg, Synopsis Fatmse Scandinavise, i, p. 22 



(Renaming of C. tarandus). 

 1842. Tarafulus horealis Riippell, Museum Senckenbergianum, iii, p, 183 



(Renaming of C. tarandus). 



Fig. 2J0. 

 Rangifer tarandux. x i. 



