RECORDS OF BIG GAME 



Antlers of Woodland Reindeer. From a specimen in the British Museum. 



REINDEER or CARIBOU (Rangifer tarandus). 



DISTINGUISHED from all other deer by the presence of antlers in both 

 sexes ; those of males being complex, with the brow-tines pal mated 

 and often unsymmetrical, and the bez, or second tine, also generally 

 expanded. The muzzle is entirely covered with hair, the ears and tail 

 are short, the throat has a fringe of long hair, and the coat is very 

 thick and of a nearly uniform clove-brown colour, with some white in 

 the region of the tail, and on the under parts and legs. The false or 

 lateral hoofs are unusually large and spreading ; and there is a patch 



