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Nov. 6, 1900, from a large herd about 50 miles east of Gichiga, 

 on the Taiganose Peninsula, consisting of a large 7 -year-old 

 male, a younger adult male, a yearling male, a 4-year-old 

 female, and a 2 -year-old female; also two fawns three days 

 old, taken April 30, and 2 fawns four weeks old, taken June 

 14; also two flat skins, to show the variations of color, and a 

 skin of a female taken by Mr. Axelrod at Marcova, Nov. 15, 

 1900. These all belong to the Lamut race of Reindeer. 



Mr. Buxton also obtained the skins, without skulls or 

 measurements, of two wild Reindeer at Marcova, a female 

 and a young male, killed and brought in by hunters. 



Mr. Bogoras's series includes 4 skins and skulls of wild 

 Reindeer collected at Mariinski Post, mouth of the Anadyr, 

 at different dates, and several additional skulls ; also 6 young 

 fawns of different ages and two skins and skulls of females of 

 the Chukchee domesticated race, and one skin and skull of a 

 female of the Lamut domesticated race. 



Although this material seems considerable it is insufficient, 

 both in quantity and character, to enable one to make sat- 

 isfactory comparisons between the wild and domesticated 

 animals, or between the two commonly recognized domestic 

 races, the Lamut and Chukchee. Also material is lacking in 

 sufficient quantity to give much new information in respect to 

 the supposed differences between the Reindeer" of Siberia and 

 of Scandinavia. Most of the adult males were killed when the 

 antlers were in the velvet, and the pelage had not acquired 

 its full winter development. The color of these skins is much 

 like that of our Eastern Woodland Caribou, at least in general 

 effect; the antlers, however, are longer and slenderer, and 

 partake more of the Greenland type. 



Mr. Buxton's measurements of the Taiganose Peninsula 

 specimens are as follows : 



No. 18179, a 7-year-old male, is unfortunately without measure- 

 ments. No. 18180, an adult male: "Length, 1750 mm.; tail, 125; hind 

 foot, 5*10; girth, 1190; .height, 970. A fine, large individual." 



No. 18178, a 4-year-old female: "Length, 1630 mm.; tail, 125; hind 

 foot, 480; height at shoulders, 940; girth behind fore legs, 1030; girth 

 of neck, 530; head of humerus to head of femur, 860. A perfect 



