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coast grows much larger, and differs in colour 
from the animal found on the inland mountains ; 
but climatal differences are quite sufficient to 
account for it. The habits of the wapiti are 
too well known to need any description. 
Woopranp Carisou Renveer (Rangifer Cari- 
bou, Aud. and Bach.).—The Caribou inhabits 
the high ridges of the Cascade Mountains, the 
Galton range, and western slope of the Rocky 
Mountains. I have no positive proof of its exist- 
ence north of the Fraser, but I think there can 
be but little doubt, if any, that its range is 
through the entire mountain district, extending 
into Russian America. 
Vircintan DEER (Cervus Virginianus, Bodd) ; 
WHITE-TAILED DEER (Cervus leucurus, Douglas). 
— Whether these are really distinct species I cannot 
say, but the small grey deer so common on the 
plains about Nesqually and in the timber belting 
the Sumass prairies, I believe to be Cervusleucurus. 
I obtained two specimens on the Diamond Tree 
pass, a high mountain ridge ascending sharply up 
from the Sumass prairie, in December—one a 
young male, the other a doe heavy in fawn—and 
have no doubt about their being the above species. 
I have also seen this deer on Vancouver Island, 
and in the Kootanie region. 
