RECORDS OF BIG GAME 



Antlers of Male Woodland Reindeer. From a specimen in the British Museum. 



REINDEER or CARIBOU (Rangifer tarandus). 



DISTINGUISHED from all other deer by the presence of antlers in both 

 sexes ; those of males being complex, with the brow-tines palmated 

 and often unsymmetrical, and the bez, or second tine, also generally 

 expanded. The muzzle is entirely covered with hair, the ears and tail 

 are short, the throat has a fringe of long hair, and the coat is very 

 thick and of a nearly uniform clove-brown colour, with some white in 

 the region of the tail, and on the under parts and legs. The false or 

 lateral hoofs are unusually large and spreading ; and there is a patch 



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