CERVUS TARANDUS, Linn. 

 Woodland Caribou. 



Cervus tarandus Harlan, Fauna Am., 232, 1825. 



GoDMAN, Am. Nat. H., II. 283. 

 Sabine, Supp. Perr. 1st Voy., cxc. 

 Richardson, App. to Perr. 2d Voy., 



326. 

 Ross, Perr. 3d Voy. 

 Cervus tarandus caribou. . • Kerr, Linn. 297, 1792. 



Cervus liastaliS Agassiz, Pr. Bost. Soc. N. Hist., II. 



188, 1846. 



The Caribou Hardy, For. Lf. in Acad., 120. 



Gilpin, Mamm. of Nova, 55. 

 Caribou, ou, Asne sauvag-e. . SagardTheodat, Canada, 751, 1636. 



La Hontan, t. i., 77, 1703. 

 Charlevoix, Nouv. France, t. v., 

 190. 

 Carre boeuf, or Caribou. . . French Canadians (Richardson). 



Tarautus caribou Aud. & Bach., Quad. N. Am., IIL, 



Iir. 1853, Fig. 

 Baird, Pacific R. R. Rep., 633, 1857. 



Rano-ifer tarandus De Kay, N. Y. Zool., 121, 1825. 



Raug'ifer liestalis Baird, U. S. Pat. Off. Rep. Agr. for 



1851, 108, 1852. 



Tarandus rangifer Ogilby, Pr. Zool. Soc. Loud., IV. 



134, 1836. 

 J. E. Gray, Pr. Zool. Soc. Loud., 

 XVIIL 225, 1850. 

 Rein-deer, or Rain-deer. . . Drage, Voygs., I. 25. 



DoBBS, Huds. Bay, 19, 22. 

 Pennant, Arct. Zool., I., 22. 

 Cartwright, Labdr., 91, 133. 

 The Reindeer, or Caribou. . Richardson, F. B. A., 238. 



In size less than wapiti. In color lighter than any of the other deer. 

 Face, neck, and belly approaching white, and lighter on the back than 

 on the sides, a shade darker anteriorly than further back. Tail white 

 with a dark tinge on the upper side. Legs dark chestnut-brown. Upper 

 lip or muffle covered with short silver-gray hair. Nose and ears have a 

 chestnut shade. A white band surrounds the top of each hoof. Hoofs , 



