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4, REIN. 
FEemMaLe, 
PLacke 
Hupson’s-Bar. 
Hift. Quad. N° 43.— Smellie, vi. 316.—Hackluyt, iii. 114.—Lev. Muse 
EER. With large but flender horns, bending forward ; with 
brow antlers broad and palmated, fometimes three feet nine 
inches long; two feet fix from tip to tip; weight, mine pounds 
twelve ounces avoirdupoife. The body is thick and fquare: the 
legs fhorter than thofe of a Stag: the height of a full-grown Rein 
four feet fix. 
Color of the hair, at firft fhedding of the coat, of a brownifh 
afh; afterwards changes to a hoary whitenefs. The animal is 
admirably guarded againft the rigor of the climate by the great 
thicknefs of the hairs, which are fo clofely placed as totally to hide 
the fkin, even if they are put afide with ever fo much care. 
Space round the eyes always black: nofe, tail, and belly white : 
above the hoofs a white circle: hair along the lower fide of the 
neck very. long : tail fhort. 
Hoofs, and falfe hoofs, long and black; the laft loofely hung, 
making a prodigious clatter when the animal runs. 
The female is furnifhed with horns ; but leffer, broader, and flat- 
ter, and with fewer branches than thofe of the male. She has fix 
teats, but two are fpurious and ufelefs. They bring two young at a 
time. 
The habitation of this Deer is ftill more limited than that of the 
former, confined to thofe parts where cold reigns with the utmoft fe- 
verity. Its moft fouthern refidence is the northern parts of Canada; 
bordering on the territories of Hud/on’s Bay. Charlevoix mentions 
a fingle inftance of one wandering as far as the neighborhood of 
Quebec*. Their true place is the vaft traét which furrounds the 
* V. Igt. 
Bay. 
