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THE REINDEER. 
fervus tarandus. 
Apout the time that the Beaver was building its 
dams on the rivers of Wales and Scotland, there was 
fast becoming extinct in North Britain another 
animal, whose singular form is perhaps better known 
than that of most animals, from its being amongst 
the earliest presented to youthful naturalists in their 
first zoological picture books—for who does not: re- 
collect the portrait of the Laplander with his Reindeer 
in a sledge ? 
