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improvement in size may be met among the wild specimens in 

 that far eastern country. The difference in size, therefore, be- 

 tween the eastern and the western varieties is not universal, but 

 is only observed when ours is compared with those of the North 

 of Europe. 



In form, also, there is an appreciable difference between the 

 American and European varieties of this deer. This will be 

 readily appreciated by comparing the illustrations here presented 



Wild European Reindeer, Male. 



of a pair of wild Reindeer in the Zoological Gardens at Berlin, 

 which were drawn by a skillful artist there under the supervision 

 of Prof. William Peters, expressly for this work, and the illustra- 

 tions of the Woodland Caribou (see pp. 85, 88). The former 

 has more the form of a prize bullock than of a deer. Ours is a 

 little more graceful in form, but still lacks those symmetrical pro- 

 portions, which would suggest those agile movements of which 



