APPENDIX 



At the last moment, I am enabled to present in this form the follow- 

 ing abstract of a papev by Mr. Robert Morrow, read before the Institute 

 of Natural Science, Halifax, N. S., April 9, 1877, deeply regretting that 

 I was not enabled to present its important facts in the text. Mr. JNIor- 

 row's examination and description of the cyst in the neck of the Caribou, 

 first mentioned by Ilutchins, and his comparison of it with that found 

 by Ml'. Camper in the Reindeer, are of especial value. His observations 

 are made with an intelligent care, and described with a particularity, 

 which enable us to understand the subject almost as if we had made the 

 examination ourselves. 



The examination of the interdigital glands or tubes between the toes 

 of the Caribou and the Moose, by himself and Drs. Gilpin and Sommers, 

 are of very great importance, and were evidently made with great care 

 and intelligence. In the text I have suggested the probability that these 

 members would be found wanting in the Moose, as I had found them 

 wanting in the wapiti deer. This paper of Mr. Morrow settles that 

 matter, and shows that they exist in the Moose to about the extent they 

 are found in the Caribou. With this new and important information 

 before us, I may here rejieat, that these glands, which are found in the 

 feet of deer, and are wanting in the feet of all other ruminants, so far as 

 I am informed, lack the constancy, and hence reliability of the other 

 glandular members peculiar to the Cervidag. 



Mr. Morrow deserves our thanks for this valuable contribution to 

 zoological science. He informs me that a similar abstract has been fur- 

 nished to " Forest and Stream," in which it will shortly appear. 



Abstract of a Paper, read April 9, 1877, before the Institute of Natural Science, 

 Halifax, N. S., by R. Morrow, entitled " Notes on the Caribou^ 



Mr. Morrow said, that the paper owed its origin to the following quotation 

 from Sir John Richardson's " Fauna Boreali- Americana," pages 250 and 251. 

 Mr. Hutehins " mentions that the buck (Caribou) has a peculiar bag or cist 

 on the lower part of the neck, about the bigness of a crown piece, and filled 

 with fine flaxen hair, neatly curled round to the thickness of an inch. There 

 is an opening through the skin, near the head, leading to the cist, but Mr. 

 Hutehins does not offer a conjecture as to its uses in the economy of the ani- 



