ISO HISTORY OF THE EUROPEAN FAUNA. 



if they had been found alone, would have been held 

 to be a certain indication of a warm climate. The 

 French geologist Professor Lartet, indeed, was of 

 opinion that the temperature during the time when 

 the Reindeer lived in the Pyrenees must have been 

 rather milder than it is at present (compare pp. 71-75). 

 Similarly, Mr. Harle argues, that the extremely 

 cold climate probably did not extend to South- 

 western France, since that area only received occa- 

 sional visits from some of the representatives of the 

 Arctic fauna. 



Long ago North American zoologists recognised 

 the existence in their country of two well-marked 

 races of the Reindeer (Caribou) a smaller one with 

 rounded antlers (Fig. 10), and a larger one in which 

 the antlers are more or less flattened out (Fig. n). 

 Two somewhat similar races can also be traced in the 

 fossil remains of the Reindeer in Europe. It was, I 

 think, Gervais who first pointed out that the Reindeer 

 remains from the north of France differed from those 

 found in the south; and Lartet referred to the fact 

 that the southern remains were more like what,, in 

 America, is called the Barren-ground. Caribou, while 

 those from Central European deposits all belonged to 

 the Siberian variety, which is more like the Wood- 

 land Caribou ot North America. In Ireland, Pro- 

 fessor Leith Adams also drew attention to the 

 curious fact that all the Irish Reindeer remains 

 resemble the Norwegian variety rather than the 

 Siberian; and Mr. Murray was so much struck by 



