THE CAEIBOO. 



AMERICAN REINDEER. Cervus Tarandus. 



HABITAT ; from Newfoundland, through all the British 

 provinces and possessions so far north as the artic seas, 

 to the northern part of the State of New York. The 

 Cariboo is not found south of the St. Lawrence, farther 

 west that the Black river, nor on the great lakes west- 

 ward of the Ottawa. 



It is said that there exists several varieties of this 

 splendid stag in the extreme northern regions, though 

 they have not been defined even by the recent bold and 

 scientific explorers of those inhospitable climes. 



I have, however, recently satisfied myself that there 

 are, if not in Canada, at least in Newfoundland, two dis- 

 tinct varieties of Cariboo, one vastly superior in size to 

 the other, and characteristically separated from the 

 smaller, by the form and structure of its horns. Of this 

 I am satisfied, by^ the examination of a pair of antlers, 

 lately exported from that curious and interesting island, 

 by my friend, Dr. Hugh Cal dwell, which differs entirely 

 from those in my own possession, which furnished the 

 models for my frontispiece, and from many specimens 



