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ee oF : (3) Wooptanp Carisou (C. tarandus). 
_ Ifwe except C. canadensis, the woodland caribou comes next 
‘in size to the moose, amongst American cervide. Luckily 
I have been able to obtain some accurate measurements of a 
bull caribou, taken while the beast was still in the flesh by 
a man who knew the value of precision. This bull, killed 
‘in 1890 by Mr. John Fannin, measured from the nose to the 
‘root of the tail 6 ft. 7 ins. ; stood 4 ft. 5 ins. at the shoulder, 
and 4 ft. 7 ins. behind the saddle on the rump ; his girth just 
behind the forelegs was 5 ft. 1 in., and the length of his 
neck (measured along the top) was 1 ft.5 ins. His weight was 
1, Woodland caribou ; 2, Barren Ground caribou 
never accurately ascertained, but a fair estimate would be 
400 lbs. live weight. These dimensions seem to me to give 
a better idea of this long, low, heavily-built beast than any 
which I could pen, but I freely confess that one of them 
comes as a surprise to me. I should never have imagined 
that a caribou stood higher behind than he does in front, 
but I know my authority too well to doubt his accuracy in 
such a matter. Our British Columbian caribou is reputed 
to grow larger than the caribou of Eastern Canada, and those 
1 : __ heads which I have seen in the east were certainly not nearly 
| as fine as heads which I have seen out here. It is said, too, ~ 
