38 RANGIFER. 



Caribou. 



Type locality. Eastern Canada. 



Geogr. Distr. Labrador, Lower Canada south to Nova Scotia, 

 New Brunswick and Maine in the east; west through Quebec and 

 Ontario to Montana, in forest lands. 



79. Rangifer terrgenovae Bangs. 



Rangijer terrcenovcB Bangs, Private Pub., Boston, 1896. Allen, 

 Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1896, p. 233. Elliot, 

 Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 11, 1901, p. 36. Zool. 

 Ser. 

 Newfoundland Caribou. 



Type locality. Grand Lake, Newfoundland (Allen), Codroy, New- 

 foundland (Bangs). 



Geogr. Distr. Newfoundland. Nova Scotia? 



80. Rangifer montanus Seton-Thompson. 



Rangijer niontamis Seton-Thompson, Ottawa Nat., xiii, 1899, p. 

 129. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 11, 1901, 

 p. 36. Zool. Ser. 

 Mountain Caribou. 



Type locality. Illecillewaet watershed, near Revelstoke, Selkirk 

 Range, British Columbia. 



Geogr. Distr. Mountains of British Columbia, north into south- 

 eastern Alaska, east into the Rocky Mountains of Alberta, and south 

 into Idaho. 



81. *Rangifer osborni Allen. 



Rangijer osborni Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. N. Y., 1902, p. 



149. 

 Osborn's Caribou. 



Type locality. Gold Range Mountains, near Sicamous, British 

 Columbia. 



Geogr. Distr. Gold Range and Cassiar Mountains, northern Brit- 

 ish Columbia. 



Genl. Char. Size large; antlers large, heavy. 



Color. Above brown, darkest on breast and limbs ; neck brownish 

 gray, nearly white in front; rump and ventral surface white; tail 

 white, with a central dark brown stripe; white band above hoofs; 

 ears dark brown. 



Measurements. Total length, 2057-2210; tail vertebra?, 152.4; 

 hind foot, 597-635; height at .shoulder, 1270-1397; ear from crown, 



^Specific distinctness not satisfactorily established. Increased knowl- 

 edge and more specimens required. 



