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the ears; the front surface of the forelegs is dark grayish brown, and of 

 the hind legs faint buffy grayish brown, increasing in amount and in- 

 tensity apically from the tarsal joint to the hoofs. These skins 

 measure respectively 1610 and 1570 mm. in total length. In one 



Fig. i. Rangifer pearyi, male (type). No. 19231, Ellesmere Land, 

 June 15. Almost wholly white. 



the antlers form knobs an inch or two in height, covered with short 

 hair. 



A fawn (No. 19235), a few weeks old, is grayish white on the head, 

 ears, neck, limbs, ventral surface and sides of the body, the hairs being 

 dusky basally and broadly tipped with white, the dusky basal portion 



