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specimen of a 4-year-old female of average color and size and with 

 perfect, average-sized antlers, selected from a herd of more than 2000 

 which varied in color from pure white to a dark seal brown." 



No. 18182, young female, "A fine average individual. Length, 

 1405 mm.; tail, 120; hind foot, 450; height, 785; girth, 910." 



No. 18181, yearling male. "A very fine specimen, of average size 

 and color, in good pelage, and with as good antlers as it was possible to 

 find in a herd of more than 2000. Length, 1375 mm.; tail, 119; hind 

 foot, 440; height at shoulders, 760; girth, 860." 



A detailed report on this material is necessarily deferred 

 till a later occasion, when a more general study of both the 

 Old World and American forms of Rangifer can be undertaken. 



The following notes by Mr. Buxton supply much interesting 

 information : 



"Wild Reindeer. Russian name, D6eka 0-ldin, meaning 

 wild reindeer. Undomesticated reindeer are still quite com- 

 mon in the country about Marcova. Every few weeks during 

 the winter travellers in that territory report seeing small 

 herds of them and a few are killed and brought to Marcova 

 every winter. There are some in the Gichiga territory. The 

 specimens in the collection were taken in February, 1901, 

 near Marcova. The skin of the wild reindeer is much thinner 

 than that of the domesticated form and the hair is much 

 lighter in texture. They are smaller also than the domesti- 

 cated ones. 



"Domesticated Reindeer. Russian name, 0-ldin. Repre- 

 sentatives of nearly all the different tribes of native people 

 inhabiting that vast section of northern Eurasia lying between 

 the Arctic Ocean on the west and Bering Sea on the east have 

 from the remotest times maintained herds of reindeer. As 

 these animals are so constituted by nature than they can be 

 utilized for food, clothing and transportation, they form a 

 very important factor in the existence of these high north 

 people. The Chukchees who inhabit the extreme northeast- 

 ern corner of Siberia, between the Arctic Ocean and Bering 

 Sea, possess the largest herds of any of the Siberian natives, 

 some of them containing as many as 20,000. The Koryaks 

 living to the south of those along Bering Sea and around the 

 head of Okhotsk Sea also have large herds, and the Tunguses, 



