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difference between the reindeer respectively inhabiting Eastern and Western 

 Greenhtnd, or whether the same form inhabits the whole area. Antlers 

 of the Greenland reindeer have been described and figured by Dr. J. A. 

 Allen,' but the present writer has never had the opportunity of seeing a 

 specimen. 



From the form of the antlers, which are elongated, slender, and 

 rounded, with but few points, and showing great individual variability, the 

 Greenland reindeer would appear to be near akin to the Barren-Ground race 

 of America. The eye is surrounded by a broad and well-defined white 

 ring, and the white ring above the hoofs is likewise sharply marked oft 

 from the fliwn-colour above and below. The antler figured by Dr. Allen 

 shows a well-marked back-tine and a bihuxate bez-tine. 



THE BARREN-GROUND REINDEER, OR CARIBOU 



[Rangifer taraudus arcticus) 



Sir John Richardson, in his great work on the fauna of North America, 

 published in 1829, was the first naturalist to describe the reindeer ot the 

 Barren-Grounds of North America as a distinct race. In 1851 it was raised 

 to the rank of a species by Professor Baird, and it is generally regarded as 

 such by American naturalists of the present day. Without endorsing this 

 view, it may be admitted that the reindeer of the Barren-Grounds is very 

 different trom the woodland animal, being much smaller in bodily size, 

 and furnished with longer, more slender, and less flattened antlers, which 

 can never be mistaken for those of the southern race. Moreover, although, 

 owing to seasonal migrations, their distributional areas overlap to a certain 

 extent, the two forms never by any chance interbreed, but always keep 

 entirely apart. 



The long, slender, and rounded antlers of the stags show but tew points 



' Biillelin of the Amcrkan Museum, vol. \iii. p. 238 (1896). 



