Barren-Ground Reindeer 



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" Some of the horns are in the velvet, which is dark blackish brov^m, 

 with scattered white hairs near the basal portion. 



"The youngest examples have straight or slightly incurved ' spike ' 

 horns eieht to eleven inches long. The next has the horns incurved, 

 thirteen inches long (chord measurement) 

 with a forward tine six inches long near the 

 base. Other horns of the same size are 

 slightly forked at the tip with the forward 

 tine also sometimes forked ; while one speci- 

 men has the tip of one horn somewhat 

 flattened. Another specimen, slightly larger, 

 has a well-developed fork to the main horns, 

 while the adults vary very much. 



" A comparison of this series with a 

 number ot skulls from Greenland fails to 

 show any tangible difference either in the 

 characters ot the cranium or the antlers. 

 No doubt there are satisfactory differences 

 in the coloration, but lack of skins of the 

 Greenland animal prevents me from making 

 comparisons. 



" In colour the adult skins do not vary 

 to any great extent. A female killed in March 

 1897 ^^ nearly white on the neck and head, 

 the ears and portions of the face and top of 

 head are brownish grey, the middle of the 

 back from shoulders to rump is brownish grey, while the legs, sides, under- 

 parts, tail, and buttocks are white, and a well-defined dark, narrow lateral 

 band runs about three inches from the dark dorsal area. Feet white, the 

 brown colour running down the middle of each toe to within an inch of 



Fig. 10. — Antlers of Barren-Ground 

 Reindeer. From a specimen in 

 the British Museum. 



