256 CATALOGUE OF UNGULATES 



R. Rangifer tarandus grcenlandieus. 



Cervus tarandus grcelandicus, Gmelin, 'Linn's Syst. Nat. vol. i, p. 177, 



1788. 

 Rangifer grcenlandicus, Baird, N. Amer. Mamm. p. 634, 1857 ; Caton, 



Deer and Antelope of N. America, p. 105, 1877 ; 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 ; 



Grant, 1th Rep. New York Zool. Soc. p. 5, 1902; Stone and 



Cram, American Animals, p. 54, 1903 ; Hollister, Smithson. 



Misc. Collect, vol. Ivi, no. 35, p. 5, 1912 ; Miller, List N. Amer. 



Mamm. p. 393, 1912. 

 Rangifer tarandus grcerilandicus, LydeJcker, Deer of All Lands, p. 47, 



1898, Great and Small Game of Europe, etc. p. 37, 1901 ; Ward, 



Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 85, 1910, ed. 7, p. 85, 1914. 



Typical locality Greenland. 



Closely allied to R. t. arcticus, with a broad sharply 

 defined white ring round each eye, and distinct broad white 

 bands above the hoofs ; skull with an elevated frontal region 

 comparable to that of R. t. excelsifrons, but markedly narrower. 



10. 1. 20. 1. Skull and antlers. Greenland. 



Presented ly Sir Robert Harvey, Bart,, 1910. 



S. Rangifer tarandus pearyi. 



Rangifer pearyi, Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. xvi, p. 409, 

 1902 ; Grant, 1th Rep. New York Zool. Soc. p. 5, 1902 ; Miller, 

 List N. Amer. Mamm. p. 393, 1912. 



Typical locality Ellesmereland, Lat. 79 JST. 



Type in American Museum of Natural History, New 

 York. 



Wholly white at all seasons, with the exception of a 

 large slaty grey area, larger in females than in males, on 

 the middle and hind part of the back ; the long and thick 

 coat softer and finer than in the Greenland race, which is 

 much darker. 



No specimen in collection. 



The following specimens are not racially determined :- 



46. 4. 25. 23. Frontlet and antlers. North America. 



Purchased (Argent), 1846. 



65. 10. 34. 5 (702, x). Skull and antlers. North 

 America. Presented by A. Murray, Esq., 1865. 



