84 RECORDS OF BIG GAME 
Several local forms of reindeer are recognised. The more important 
are: (1) the Scandinavian reindeer (2. ¢arandus typicus) of Sweden and 
Norway, which is rather small with moderately expanded antlers; (2) 
the larger Finnish reindeer (X. ¢. fennzcus), distinguished by the more 
vaulted nasal bones ; (3) the woodland caribou (2. ¢. cavzbou) of the forest 
districts of Arctic America, characterised by its large size and the short, 
Antlers of Woodland Caribou from Nova Scotia. 
From a specimen in the British Museum. 
much-palmated antlers, in which the brow-tines form huge “ shovels,” 
one generally much larger than the other; and (4) the Barren-Ground 
reindeer (X. ¢. arcticus), from the open country north of the forests in 
America, nearly related to the Scandinavian reindeer, and characterised 
by its small bodily size, and the great length and simple form of the 
antlers, in which, except on the brow-tine, there is scarcely any palma- 
tion. The reindeer of Siberia and Novaia Zemlia, which approximate to 
the American types, have been named XR. 4. szbiricus and R. ¢. pearsont. 
Names have been given to numerous American local forms, some of 
