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antlers, in which one brow-tine is excessively expanded while the other is 

 comparatively simple, are perhaps the most distinctive features of this 

 well-marked race. The bez is also large and much expanded, with only 

 a short interval separating it from the comparatively large back-tine, but 

 the points on the extremity of the antler are generally few and small, as 



is especially well shown in the accom- 

 panying figure. Compared with the 

 Scandinavian reindeer the pasterns are 

 much longer and more slender. There 

 is no light ring round the eye, and the 

 early winter coat is as dark a brown as 

 that of the moose on much of the body, 

 although as winter advances it gradually 

 bleaches. At all seasons the colour is 

 much darker than in the Newfoundland 

 race, the dark area extending over the 

 fore part of the under surface of the 

 body. The white ring above the hoofs 

 is very narrow, and sharply defined from 

 the dark of the rest of the limb. The 

 upper surface of the relatively long tail, 

 as well as its sides, is dark fawn. In old 

 stags the mane is not unfrequently nearly 

 white, and in some individuals there is a considerable amount of white on 

 the flice and neck. A stag will weigh about five hundred pounds. 



The ran^e of this well-marked race of reindeer covers the northern 

 wooded districts of North America, including Labrador, Northern Canada, 

 Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, the northern districts of Maine, and Lower 

 Canada on both sides of the river St. Lawrence, thence passing westwards 

 to the neighbourhood of Lake Superior, which forms the southern limit of 



Fic. 7. — Skull and Antlers of Nova Scotian 

 Woodland Reindeer. From a specimen 

 in the British Museum. 



