Marcu 24, 1914 Vou. IV, pp. 103-107 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
THE BARREN-GROUND CARIBOU OF LABRADOR. 
BY GLOVER M. ALLEN. 
Waize in London in 1912, I was much struck by the appearance 
of a fine mounted head of a barren-ground caribou on exhibition 
in the rooms of a well-known taxidermist, and on learning that it 
came from Labrador, I resolved to make further investigation of 
the peninsular animal. In this I have had the assistance of Mr. 
William B. Cabot, of Boston, who, in the course of several pioneer 
expeditions into the interior of that country, has secured many 
photographs of antlers and has examined a number of speci- 
mens, of which, unfortunately, none was preserved. Hitherto, the 
barren-ground caribou of Labrador has been tacitly referred to 
Rangifer arcticus, the “Cervus tarandus, var. a., arctica” of Richard- 
son. This name is based on the animal of the barren grounds to 
the northwest of Hudson Bay. Richardson says: “On the coast 
of Hudson’s Bay the Barren-Ground Caribou migrate further 
south than those on the Coppermine or Mackenzie Rivers; but 
none of them go to the southward of Churchill.” The southerly 
extension of James Bay thus separates for a long distance the east- 
ward range of true arcticus from the westward bounds of the 
Labrador barren-ground caribou, which probably does not pass 
farther south than Great Whale River on the west coast. These 
1 Richardson, J. Fauna Boreali-Americana, Vol. 1, Quadrupeds, p. 241, 1829, 
