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on their success as hunters for their daily food, 

 can ever know or comprehend. 



The horns of this caribou were perfectly 

 clear of velvet, which must, I should think, 

 have been rubbed off a day or tAvo before, as 

 there was not a shred of it left on them, and 

 they were dark red-brown in colour. They 

 were very handsome and at the same time very 

 interesting, differing entirely in type from all 

 other specimens I have seen obtained in the 

 Yukon territorv. 



As a rule the horns of the caribou fi'om this 

 district are very long and distinctly of the 

 barren ground type, with the bez tine very 

 much elongated and very slightly palmated. 

 The horns of the animal I had just killed were 

 only forty inches in length, but well palmated 

 in all parts and with beautiful tops. They 

 were, in fact, intermediate in form between 

 the usually accepted barren ground and wood- 

 land types of horns, which shows how very 

 difficult it is to classifv the various races or 

 species of caribou according to the shape of 

 their horns. 



