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form ;is in the woodland race, but are very much branched, no less than 

 72 points having been recorded in one example. They are reported to 

 be less narrow than in the Newfoundland race. 



The ranire of this form includes the mountains of the interior of British 

 Columbia, thence into South-Eastern Alaska, eastward into the Rocky Moun- 

 tains in Alberta, and southward into the higher ranges of Northern Idaho. 



A series of four adult males collected by Mr. A. J. Stone in the Cassian 

 Mountains has enabled Dr. A. J. Allen, in the BulLt'ni of the Aincricc]>i 

 Museum of Naturul History for 1900,' to give a fuller account of this 

 reindeer, with a number of excellent photographs of its antlers, as well as 

 some of those of allied races. The following passages from this communi- 

 cation are of special interest : — 



"This form of caribou differs markedlv in colour trom the woodland 

 caribou, which it most resembles, in being very much darker through- 

 out, in its larger size, longer and heavier antlers, and in the large size of 

 the white rump-patch, which is practically obsolete in the other torms of 

 the genus, or, at least in the lighter forms, very indistinctly defined. 



"The most remote ally oi R. inoiitanus is H. tcn-ic-tiovtr, not only 

 geographically, but in coloration and structural character. R. /no/itciiius has 

 the fiicial portion of the skull elongated and slender, in contrast with the 

 short, thick skull of R. tcrra'-novcr. In R. montcinus the antlers are very 

 long, yet heavy and massive in comparison witli those of R. giwii/ciihficus ; 

 in R. tcrr(e-}iova the antlers are still more massive, but much shorter than 

 in R. niontanus.^' 



From the habitat of the woodland reindeer the area inhabited bv the 

 present race is said to be separated by a considerable tract in which rein- 

 deer are apparently unknown. 



From a supplemental account given by Mr. W. H. Osgood in his 

 paper on the mammals of the Yukon region, published in Part 19 of the 



' Vol. xiii. p. I. 



