1902.] 



Allen, New Caribou from Ellesmere Land. 



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showing through the white enough to give a general dingy effect. The 

 top of the nose and a narrow band bordering the nostrils are blackish, 

 passing posteriorly on the upper part of the rostrum into brownish 

 dusky; a broad central band from the nose nearly to the ears is darker 



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Fig. 2. Rangifer pearyi< female, No. 19232, Ellesmere Land, June 15. 

 White except the back, which is drab-gray. 



or more dingy than the sides of the face; a rusty brownish spot marks 

 the point where the antlers are to appear, and there is a faint rusty 

 wash on the sides of the face both before and behind the rusty antler 

 spots. The back is marked by a strongly denned, very narrow, ferru- 

 gineous line, running from the nape to the base of the tail, which, over 



