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what similar elevation of the frontal region is exhibited in 

 the skull of R. t. grcenlaudicus, which is, however, of a 

 narrow type. 



No specimen in collection. 



Q. Rangrifer tarandus arcticus. 



Cervus tarandus arcticus, Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer. p. 23, 1829. 

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



p. 105, 1852. 

 Kangifer arcticus, Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. viii, p. 234, 



1896 ; Elliot, Synop. Mamm. N. Amer. (Field Mus. Zool. Pub. 



vol. ii) p. 37, 1901, Cat. Mamm. Field Mus. (op. cit. vol. viii) 



p. 41, 1907; Grant, 7th Rep. New York Zool. Soc. p. 5, 1902; 



Stone and Cram, American Animals, p. 53, 1903 ; Hollister, 



Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. Ivi, no. 35, pi, i, 1912 ; Miller, List 



N. Amer. Mamm. p. 391, 1912. 



Rangifer tarandus arcticus, LydeTcher, Deer of All Lands, p. 47, 1898, 

 Great and Small Game of Europe, etc. p. 38, 1901 ; Ward, 

 Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 84, 1910, ed. 7, p. 84, 1914. 



BARREN-GROUND CARIBOU. 



Typical locality Fort Enterprise, Mackenzie district, 

 Canada. 



Size relatively small. Antlers (fig. 44) very long, slender, 

 and rounded, with few points on the expanded portion of the 

 beam, which is separated by a long interval from the third 

 tine ; the latter, which is but slightly palmated, generally 

 with one of the basal tines more or less expanded ; back- 

 tine usually, if not always, wanting; female-antlers much 

 smaller, simpler, and scarcely curved at all. General colour 

 in summer clove-brown, mingled with reddish and yellowish 

 brown, under-parts white ; in winter entire coat dirty white ; 

 lower incisors diminishing suddenly in size from the middle 

 to the outer pair, which are very small. 



51. 10. 24. 1. Skull and antlers. Arctic America. 



Purchased (Argent), 1851. 



55. 5. 14. 2 (702, w). Skeleton and antlers. Arctic 

 America ; collected by Dr. J. Eae. Purchased, 1855. 



7. 9. 4. 7. Skull and antlers. Baffinland. 



Presented ly Crawford Nolle, Esq., 1907. 



