126 Bulletin American Museum of Natural History. [Vol. XVI, 



Rangifer granti is a representative of the Barren Ground 

 group of Caribou, which includes R. arcticus of the Arctic 



\^. Coast and R. grcenlandi- 

 j^J CMS of Greenland. It 

 '^^J is not closely related to 

 ^f R. stonei of the Kenai 

 ^^^^^^ ^^f Peninsula, from which it 



^sJ differs not only in its 



very much smaller size, 

 but in important cranial 

 characters and in colora- 

 tion. R. stonei was de- 

 scribed 1 from a single 

 fine head (including 

 both skin and skull), 

 collected by Mr. Stone 

 on the Kenai Peninsula 

 in 1900. This single in- 

 complete specimen was 

 insufficient to show the 

 very strong differences 

 that obtain between R. 

 stonei and R. montanus. 

 Mr. D. G. Elliot has 

 since given a full de- 

 scription of the same 

 species a from a mounted 

 specimen collected by 

 Mr. H. E. Lee, on Kenai 

 Peninsula September 5, 

 1898. Mr. Lee's speci- 

 men shows the same 

 type of antlers, with the 



Fig. 6. Rangifer granti, ? ad. Same specimen as 

 Fig. 4. About nat. size. 



brow antlers very heavi- 

 ly developed, and dis- 

 tinctive features of coloration, including the absence of a 

 caudal patch, so strongly and uniformly developed in R. 



1 This Bulletin, Vol. XIV, IQOI, pp. 143-148, fig. 1-4. 



8 Publications Field Columbian Museum, Zool. Ser., Ill, No. 5, pp. 59-62, pi. xi xiii. 



