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U. S. P. R. R. EXP. AND SURVEYS ZOOLOGY GENERAL REPORT. 



The woodland caribou, as it is called by Dr. Richardson, is much larger than the barren ground 

 reindeer found further north, but with smaller horns. According to this author, its northern 

 limit is to the south of Hudson's bay, in a stripe of low primitive rocks about one hundred 

 miles wide, and reaching as far west as Lake Superior. To the south it extends through 

 Canada as far as New Brunswick and Maine, and possibly, in former times, to the northern 

 parts of New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. It is not known as an inhabitant of the 

 Rocky Mountains. 



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Fig. 3. Rangifer caribcu, No. 900. Isle Royale, Lake Superior. Right horn from inside. Size, 6.30 inches to 



the inch. 

 Fig. 4. Rangifer caribou, No. 1198. Trois Rivieres, Canada. Young, of probably second year. Right horn, view 



from inside. Size, 4 inches to the inch. 



Fig. 5. Do. The left horn of the same animal viewed from the outside. Size, 3.14 inches to the inch. 

 Fig. 6. Do., No. 1199. Another horn from the same locality. Right side from inside. Size, 3.38 inches to the inch. 



RANGIFER GROENLANDICUS. 



Barren Ground Cariboo. 



Cervus tarandus groenlandicus, KERR, Linnseus, 1792, 297. 

 Cervus tarandus, var. a, arc/tea, RICH. F. B. Am. I, 1829, 241, (fig. of horns.) 

 KING. Narr. Capt Back's Exped, II, 1836, 207. 



Tarandus arcticus, BAIRD, in U. S Pat. Off. Rep. Agricultural for 1851, (1852,) 105. 

 Cervus tarandus (Tuktu,) RICH, Zoology of Herald, Fossil Mammals, i, 1852, 98 ; 11, 1852, 15 ; pi. xxiii. (Desc. 



of skeleton and figure of skull and horns.) 

 Tuklu of the Esquimaux. 



