CERVID^ 253 



0.— Rangifer tarandus g-ranti. 



Eangifer granti, Allen, Bull, Amer. Mus. Nat, Hist. vol. xvi, p. 192, 

 1902 ; Grani, Ith Bep. N. YorTc Zool. Soc. p. 5. 1902 ; Stone and 

 Grain, American Animals, p. 54, 1903 ; Hollister, Smithson, 

 Misc. Collect, vol. Ivi, no. 35, p. 7, 1912; Miller, List N. Amer. 

 Mamm. p. 892, 1912. 



Eangifer tarandua granti, Ward, Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 85, 

 1910, ed. 7, p. 85, 1914. 



Western end of Alaskan Peninsula, opposite Popoff 

 Island. 



Type in American Museum of Natural History, New 

 York. 



Nearly related to the preceding race, but distinguished 

 by details of colouring, and apparently by the markedly 

 hypsodont cheek-teeth. From B. t. stonei it differs not only 

 by its longer antlers and inferior bodily size, but also in 

 coloration and the characters of the skull. General colour 

 dark brown, varyiug somewhat according to season, with a 

 large white rump-patch and white tail, through the middle 

 line of the upper surface of which runs a dark streak ; this 

 white rump-patch serving at once to distinguish R. i. granti 

 from B. t. stonei, in which the whole of the hind-quarters 

 are dark-coloured. This caribou apparently inhabits an 

 isolated area formed by the treeless districts of the Alaskan 

 Peninsula and some of the adjacent islands, from at least 

 one of which it has been exterminated. 



No specimen in collection. 



P.— Rangifep tarandus excelsifrons. 



Eangifer excelsifrons, Hollister, Smithson. Misc. Colled, vol. hi, 

 no. 35, p. 5, 1912 ; Miller, List N. Amer. Mamm. p. 392, 1912. 



Typical locality Meade Valley, near Point Barrow, 

 Alaska. 



Type in U.S. National Museum, Washington. 



Described from the skull, which is characterised by its 

 shortness and breadth, with the brain-case much elevated, 

 and the hollow between the orbits deep and rounded ; teeth 

 of the general type of those of R. t. arcticus. A some- 



