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HIS PORTRAIT. 



between that province and southern Lapland, nothing of 

 the kind has been met with. 



THE REIN-DEER.* 



The rein-deer in a wild state is far from an ignoble animal ; 

 but he is not so graceful as the stag, owing principally to the 

 position of his neck, which obliges him to carry his head in a 

 somewhat stooping posture thus forming nearly a straight 

 line with the back instead of holding it erect like that 



* Portrait of the large male now in the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park, 

 by Mr. Alexander Pussell. 



