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MK. R. I. POCOCK ON THE EXTERNAL 



Genus Hangifer H. Smith. 

 E.ANGIFBR TARANDus Linn. (p. 960). 



In 1910 I was only able to examine the dried limbs of the 

 North American race of this species, H. tarandios caribou. That 

 account I can now supplement by observations upon a female 

 specimen that died in the Gardens on July 27th. 



The muzzle of the Reindeer has been described as covered with 

 hair, as if there was no trace of rhinarium. It is ti-ue that the 



Text-figure 16. 



A. Section of fore foot of Hangifer tarandus. 



B. The same of hind foot. 



area above, between, and below the fleshy valvular nostrils is 

 entirely overgrown with short soft hair ; but along the edge of 

 the upper lip there is a naked areolated tract, wider than the 

 space between the nostrils, with convex upper edge and similar 

 in sculpture and width to the corresponding tract on the edge of 

 the lower lip, but about twice as deep. (Text-fig. 14, D.) 



This is the inferior portion of the rhinarium retained. In 

 this particular the Reindeer is unique amongst the Cervidae. 



