NOTES ON THE SCANDINAVIAN EEINDEEE. 



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NOTES ON THE SCANDINAVIAN REINDEER. By N. LAUEENCE ATTSTEN, Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S., &e. 



WILD Reindeer were formerly, it is believed, found throughout the greater por- 

 tion of the Scandinavian peninsula ; but at the present day they are confined to 



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NOTE. 



Subsequently to the printing of Sheet ' 2 E " (pp. 205-212) appeared Dr. Louis 

 Lartet's short memoir, " Gravures ine"dites de 1'ftge du renne, paraissant repre"- 

 senter le Mammouth et le Glouton," in the <Mate"riaux pour 1'histoire de 1'Homme,' 

 2 e se"r., vol. v. pp. 33-36, with woodcuts of (1) two lively heads of the Mammoth, 

 in outline, on a plate of bone from Pe"rigord (figs. 20 & 21), and (2) of the Glutton 

 (fig. 22), which we have also figured, from a Photograph, at p. 209, fig. 80. 



reached the moss, they are frequently driven away by the hinds and younger 

 males, which, retaining their antlers during the period of winter, are thus enabled 

 to keep off their more vigorous companions. 



