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NATURAL HISTORY. 



able difficulty, a fact which accounts in part for the high price of its 

 malodorous product. 



In the reindeer and caribou horns are developed in both sexes. The 

 reindeer belongs to the northern parts of the Old World, the two species 

 of caribou to the same portions of the western hemisphere. These are 

 the woodland and the barren ground species, the differences in habitat 

 being indicated in the common names, the latter being the more northern, 

 while the other just enters our northern states. Both go in large herds 

 composed of a buck and his harem. In the winter they go farther south than 

 they do hi summer, and even in the small island of Newfoundland they 

 have their regular annual mis-rations from one side of the island to the 



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Fig. 501. — Musk-deer (Moschus moschiferus) . 



other. Caribou-hunting is ranked among the best of sport. The time for 

 it is in the winter, and the amount of suffering which is endured in the 

 chase can better be imagined than described. Sometimes several days 

 will be occupied in the capture of one animal, the whole party bivouacking 

 in the snow for the night, and then following up the trail on snowshoes 

 the next day. The more ignoble trapping and snaring are never adopted 

 by the true sportsman, but for the Indian and the hunter, with whom it is 

 a question of food and clothing, all methods of securing the game are 

 permissible. 



The reindeer is the first-cousin to the caribou, and resembles quite 

 closely the woodland species. It is spread across the northern part of the 

 Old World from Scandinavia to Kamtchatka, and in all this long stretch 









