CEEVID.E 249- 



Typical (and only) locality N'ewfoundland. 



Nearly allied to R. t. caribou, the bodily size being large, 

 and the antlers massive and much palmated, with numerous 

 points on all the branches and especially on the hind border 

 of the beam. General colour in autumn greyish brown, 

 becoming lighter on the flanks, and passing into nearly pure 

 white on the under surface ; neck dirty white, somewhat 

 purer in front; a broad, ill-defined light ring round each 

 eye, and muzzle and lower portion of the face, as well as 

 extremity of lower jaw, greyish white ; rest of head like 

 back ; edges and lower surface of tail and buttocks white ; 

 front and outer surfaces of limbs brownish grey; feet and 

 terminal third of shanks white, passing gradually into the 

 general colour of the limbs above. Females show rather 

 less white ; and the young are still darker, with a dusky 

 line on the flanks, and a blackish streak running down the 

 back and expanding over the shoulders. 



99. 2. 1. 1. Head, mounted. West Newfoundland. 



Presented ly Lieut. W. G. P. Graves, E.N., 1899. 



7. 3, 11. 2. Skin, mounted. Newfoundland. 



Presented by F. G. Selous, Usq., 1907. 



8. 1. 19. 1. Skull and antlers. Newfoundland. 



Presented by tSf. George Littledale, Esq., 1908. 



J.— Rangifep tarandus montanus. 



Eangifer montanus, Seton-Tliompson, Ottawa Naturalist, vol. xiii, 



p. 129, 1899 ; Elliot, Synop. Mamm. N. Amer. {Field Mus. Zool. 



Pub. vol. ii) p. 36, 1901, Oat. Mamm. Field Mus. {op. cit. 



vol. viii) p. 40, 1907 ; Grant, 7th Bep. New Torh Zool. Soc. p. 5, 



1902 ; Stone and Oram, American Animals, p. 51, 1903 ; Miller, 



List N. Amer. Mamm. p. 393, 1912. 

 Eangifer tarandus montanus, LydeTcker, Oreat and Small Game of 



Europe, etc. p. 33, 1901, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1902, vol. ii, p. 361 ; 



Ward, Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 85, 1910, ed. 7, p. 85, 



1914. 



Typical locality Selkirk Eange, British Columbia. 



Antlers (fig. 43) of the general type of those of the wood- 

 land race, but in their relative shortness and much branched 

 character recalling those of B. t. terrcenovm, although lighter 

 and more slender ; the most distinctive feature of this 

 race is the dark colour of the autumn coat, which is 



