CARIBOU 

 Rangifer caribou. 



This particular representative of the reindeer family ranges 

 from northern Maine to Newfoundland, whence a somewhat smaller 

 species extends north to the Arctic barrens and frequents the coasts 

 of Greenland. Both groups alike are distinguished from others of 

 the deer family by their antlers, always being more or less palma- 

 ted, also the female as well as the male have antlers, those of the 

 female always are much shorter and less in number of points than 

 with the male. One feature of them all is the spike or palmate 

 growth which branches out horizontally above the brow, frequently 

 to the end of the nose, and in the size of the antlers of the males, 

 which generally are very long and curving, and having from thirty 

 to as many as sixty points on the prongs or palms. When we see the 



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