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THE EEINDEER 



Ccrvus tarandus. 



About the time that the Beaver was buildino- its 



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dams on the rivers of Wales and Scotland, there was 

 fast becomino' extinct in North Britain another 

 animal, whose singular form is perhajjs better known 

 than that of most animals, from its being amongst 

 the earliest presented to youthful natui-alists in their 

 first zoological picture books — for who does not re- 

 collect the portrait of the Laplander with his Reindeer 

 in a sledge ? 



