NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 47 



Minnesota ; Oregon near Mount Hood ; northern Idaho ; 

 northwestern Montana, and the mountains of British Co- 

 lumbia. 



Quite recently, three new species of caribou have been 

 added to our fauna, one from the Alaskan Peninsula (Ran- 

 gifer granti), one from the Kenai Peninsula (Rangifer sto- 

 nei), and one from the Cassiar Mountains (Rangifer os- 

 borni). 



The Woodland Caribou attains nearly twice the bodily 

 bulk of its more northern congener, the Barren-Ground 

 caribou. In a state of nature it lives on browse, reindeer 

 moss, tree moss, and lichens, and it loves ice-covered lakes 

 and ponds as much as any boy. Its loose-jointed and wide 

 spreading hoofs and enormously developed " dew-claws" 

 have been specially designed by Nature to enable this ani- 

 mal to run freely, as if on snow-shoes, over snow or bogs, 

 which to any small-hoofed deer would be quite impassable. 



The female Woodland Caribou is provided with small ant- 

 lers, which, like those of the male, are shed and renewed 

 annually. 



In the absence of caribou in the Park, visitors are advised 

 to look for specimens of the Lapland Reindeer, (Rangifer 

 tarandus), for we shall endeavor to keep this genus rep- 

 resented. 



THE ZEBRA HOUSES, No. 14. 



Although the main building of this installation has not 

 yet been erected, the plan for the various buildings and 

 corrals has been approved, and the two rustic buildings 

 will be in place in the summer .of 1907. The three build 

 ings, and the extensive corrals connecting with them, will, 

 as a whole, do justice to the important and picturesque 

 Family Equidac, which includes all the zebras, wild asses 

 and wild horses of the world. 



This installation occupies the whole of the beautiful, 

 grassy knoll of about six acres formerly devoted to the 

 moose. It is situated at the head of Bird Valley, on the 

 western side, and due west of the Elephant House. The 

 main building, which will be erected in 1907-8, will be very 

 much like the Small-Deer House. Meanwhile, the zebras 

 and asses will be found in the Antelope House and the 

 Prjevalsky Horses at the old Moose House. 



