SCANDINAVIAN REINDEER. 179 



Paul Gervais's Histoire Naturelle des Mammiferes, 

 1855, p. 109. The tail and jaws in the outline 

 from the Dordogne are larger than represented by 

 either Schreber or Pallas, who seem to have had 

 their drawings made from dry stuffed specimens. 

 Gervais is more true to nature in giving a fuller 

 tail, and a rather thicker, though short, muzzle ; 

 but the last is not so large as that in our engraving 

 (Fig. 80), which may be an exaggerated feature, 

 and due to the imperfect art, or obstinate whim, 

 of the aboriginal draughtsman. 



" The exact proportions, however, of the North 

 European glutton are best shown in the accompany- 

 ing woodcut, being a portrait of the glutton now 

 living in the Zoological Society's Gardens, London, 

 carefully studied and drawn by Mr. N. Laurence 

 Austen, F.L.S., F.Z.8., who is well acquainted with 

 the glutton in its Norwegian home." 



Mrs. Austen has given me the following, the last 

 paper her son ever wrote : 



Later Notes on the Scandinavian Reindeer ; being 

 a Contribution to " Reliquiae Aquitanicce" by N. 

 LAURENCE AUSTEN, Esq., F.L.8., F.Z.S., &c., and 

 reprinted by permission of the Editor, Prof. Eupert 

 Jones, f\R.S.,F.G.S., &c., of the Royal Military and 

 Staff Colleges, Sandhurst. 



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