SPECIES OF MAMMALIA. 



muzzle only a naked triangular spot; colours white, with 

 intermixture of brown, or various; tail verj' short. 



Var. It seems that the American varieties have the horns 

 shorter, more robust, straighter ; palms narrower, and/ewer 

 processes, but occupying more of the horn : 1, Caribou des 

 Bois *. 2. Great Caribou of the Rocky Mountains. 3. La- 

 brador, or Polar Caribou. 



Tarandus, Pliny, JElian, Aldrov. Rangifer, Gesner. 

 Csixihou, Charlevoix, C. Groenlandicus, i^rm. C. Rangifer, 

 ejusd. C. Tarandus, Auctor. Renne, Buff. G. and F. Cuv. 

 Rein-deer, Pent., Shaw. C. Mirabilis, C. FsLlmaius, Johns t. 

 Rennthies of the Germans. Olen of Sclavonic. Juscha, 

 Putsche, Saegau, SfC, of the North East of Asia. The Attenk 

 of the Cree Indians in the Labrador Caribou. 



Icon. Buff. Schreb. Fred. Cuv. Mam. Lilhog. Siberian 

 American specimens. Nobis from Mr. Temminck's Museum 

 and Plymouth. 



Inhabit the arctic circle of both continents ; in Europe, 

 never south of the Baltic, nor in America, south of the St. 

 Lawrence. 



+ C. Guetardi (Fossil Rein-deer.) Small, slender, 

 almost filiform fragments of horns ; belonging to an ani- 

 mal not larger than a fallow-deer ; found near Etampes in 

 France. 



* A specimen, conjectured to be tliis variety, measured about three feet 

 six inches at the slioulder, six feet six in lengtli ; the head one foot eight 

 inches ; each liorn tiiree feet four inches ; the brow pahns meeting' on the 

 forehead, tlie second spreading- each of five snails, and one foot three, and 

 one foot four inches long ; tlic tcrininal tip developctl ; one snag to tlic 

 rear; all very robust; general colour dark chocolate-brown, whitish in- 

 termixed ; no naked triangular space between the nostrils ; face very tlat ; 

 ears four inches long; gray outside. 



t In the former part of this Synopsis, the fossil non-oxisting species 

 are not inserted. In this catalogue of Riuninants i)y Major ilamiltoti 

 Smith, they are inserted in his respective divisions of the Order, on)itting 

 the consecutive numerals. — Ed. 

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