240 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 928 ; Flower and Garson, Cat. Osteol. 

 Mus. E. Coll. Surg. pi. ii, p. 312, 1884 ; Flower and Lydekker, 

 Study of Mammals, p. 325, 1891 ; Lydekker, Horns and Hoofs, 

 p. 326, 1893, British Mammals, p. 253, 1935, Deer of All 

 Lands, p. 33, pi. i, 1898, Great and Small Game of Europe, etc. 

 p. 24, 1901 ; Scharff, Proc. R. Irish Ac. ser. 3, vol. iv, 473, 

 1897, European Animals, p. 110, 1907 ; Grant, 1th Rep. New 

 York Zool. Soc. p. 4, 1902 ; Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 

 vol. xix, p. 125, 1903; Winge, Danmarks Fauna, Pattedyr, 

 p. 179, 1908 ; Pocock, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 960 ; Trouessart, 

 Faune Mamm. Europe, p. 231, 1910; Ward, Records of Big 

 Game, eel. 6, p. 83, 1910, ed. 7, p. 83, 1914; Miller, Cat. Mamm. 

 West. Europe, p. 980, 1912. 



Tarandus furcifer, Baird, Rep. Comm. Patents, 1851, vol. ii, Agric. 

 p. 109, 1852. 



REINDEER; CARIBOU. 



Typical locality mountains of Swedish Lapland. 

 A variable and widely-spread species, of which most of 

 the characters are the same as those of the genus. Coat 



FIG. 40. LOWER FRONT TESTH OF REINDEER 



(Rangifer tarandus). 

 From Miller, Cat. Mamm. Western Europe. 



dense and compact ; general colour varying from clove- 

 brown, with more or less white or whitish grey on under- 

 parts, inner surfaces of limbs, above the hoofs, and on the 

 muzzle, and in some cases whitish rings round the eyes, to 

 nearly white on the one hand and to blackish brown on the 

 other ; typically a white area in the region of the tail, which 

 includes the sides but not the upper surface of the latter, 

 and the tarsal tuft generally white. The antlers are smooth, 

 and brownish white in colour, but the hoofs are jet black. 

 A height of 4 feet 10 inches at the shoulder has been 

 recorded in the Newfoundland race. 



The range is co-extensive with that of the genus. 



