CERVUS TARANDUS, Linn. 



Woodland Caribou. 



Cervus taraudus. 



Cervus taraiidiis caribou. 

 Cervus hastalis. . • . 



The Caribou 



Caribou, ou, Asue sauvage. 



Carre boeuf, or Caribou. 

 Tarautus caribou. . . 



Rangifer taraudus. 

 Raugifer liestalis. 



Taraudus raugifer, 



Relu-deer, or Rain-deer. 



The Reiudeer, or Caribou. 



. Harlan, Fauna Am., 232, 1825. 

 GoDMAN, Am. Nat. H., II. 283. 

 Sabine, Supp. Perr. 1st Voy-, cxc. 

 Richardson, App. to Perr. 2cl Voy., 



326. 

 Ross, Perr. 3d Voy. 

 . Kerr, Linn. 297, 1792. 

 . Agassiz, Pr. Bost. Soe. N. Hist., H. 



188, 1846. 

 . Hardy, For. Lf. in Acad., 120. 



Gilpin, Mamm. of Nova, 55. 

 . SagardTheodat, Canada, 751, 1636. 

 La Hontan, t. i., 77, 1703. 

 Charlevoix, Nouv. France, t. v., 

 190. 

 . French Canadians (Richardson). 

 . AuD. & Bach., Quad. N. Am., III., 

 Iir. 1853, Fig. 

 Baird, Pacific R. R. Rep., 633, 1857. 

 . De Kay, N. Y. Zoo!., 121, 1825. 

 . Baird, U. S. Pat. Off. Rep. Agr. for 



1851, 108, 1852. 

 . Ogilby, Pr. Zool. Soc. Loud., IV. 

 134, 1836. 

 J. E. Gray, Pr. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 XVIIL 225, 1850. 

 . Drage, Voygs., I. 25. 

 DoBBS, Huds. Bay, 19, 22. 

 Pennant, Arct. Zool., L, 22. 

 Cartwright, Labdr., 91, 133. 

 . Richardson, F. B. A., 238. 



In size less than wapiti. In color lighter than any of the other deer. 

 Face, neck, and belly approaching white, and lighter on the back than 

 on the sides, a shade darker anteriorly than further back. Tail white 

 with a dark tinge on the upper side. Legs dark chestnut-brown. Upper 

 lip or muffle covered with short silver-gray hair. Nose and ears have a 

 chestnut shade. A white band surrounds the top of each hoof. Hoofs, 



