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growth and development. I have seen ample evidence of 

 this during the many seasons I have spent directly on the line 

 of the southerly migration. In the reserve on which shoot- 

 ing is forbidden, I have 

 noticed that, as a rule, 

 within half-an-hour after 

 a fairly good stag has 

 passed me, I have heard 

 shots fired. This time 

 would easily allow the 

 animals to get clear of 

 the reserve. In some 

 cases I have been able 

 to practically prove that 

 the shots were fired at 

 the very stags I had so 

 recently seen. This con- 

 stant weeding out of the 

 big stags keeps down the 

 average size of this lot 

 of Caribou without much 

 doubt. Yet I have seen 

 a few heads among them 

 which would compare 

 favourably with the very 

 best found in any part of 

 the island, though of 

 course the percentage 

 of the big fellows 

 would be smaller. In 

 regard to the shape of 

 straggling. thc homs, thcrc is so 



Ffom Madison Grant' s Article in the New York Zoological rx\\jQ\\ individual Variation 

 Society's Report.) 



Fig. 7. 



Newfoundland Caribou {Rangifer Teyyamvce, Bangs). 



Red Indian Lake. Length of beam 41 inches. 

 36 points. 



A rather unusual type, the bays being very long and 



