102 THE SELOtrS COLLECTION. 



NEWFOUNDLAND CARIBOU. 



RaNOIFER TARANDUS TBRE.l^NOVir;. 



Ra ngifer terrtenovas, Bangs, Descript Newfoundland Caribou, Boston, 1896. 

 Runyifer tarandus terrmnovx, Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. viii. 

 p. 235, 1896. 



Antlers massive and much palmated, with a large number of 

 points. General colour paler than in the following race. 



Among the heads in the Collection there is one (No. 19. 7. 15.482) 

 with exceptionally beautiful horns, bearing no less than 40 points ; 

 the measurements of this specimen are as follows : — length on 

 outside curve 40^ ; circumference S ; greatest width inside 361 ; 

 sjjread from tip to tip 28|. Points 21 + 19. 



Typical locality, Newfoundland, to which Island the race is 

 confined. 



511 —19.7.15.481. 2 November. 1900. Terra Nova Lake, New- 



foundland. 

 512-515 —19.7.15.482-485. September, 1901. St. John's Lake, 

 Newfoundland. 



516 —19.7.15.486. 20 October, 1905. King George IV Lake, 



Newfoundland. 



517 —19.7.15.487. 23 October, 1905. Lloyds Lake, Exploits 



River, Newfoundland. 



518 —19.7.15.488. 1 November, 1905. Mount Eamsay, Exploits 



River, Newfoundland. 



OSBORN'S CARIBOU. 

 Rais'uifer taranbus osborni. 



Rangifer oaburiii, Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. xvi. p. 149, 



figs. 1 and 2, 1902. 

 Rangifer tarandus osbunii, Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 85, 1910 ; 



ed. 7, p. 85, 1914. 



Antlers rather of the Barren-Ground type, but considerably 

 greater in size ; general colour darker than in the Newfoundland 

 race. 



The following series contains some very fine heads, the best 

 being No. 19. 7. 15. 494 :^length of horns on outside curve 57^ ; 



