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what similar elevation of the frontal region is exhibited in 

 the skull of B. t. grmnlcmdicus, which is, however, of a 

 narrow type. 



No specimen in collection. 



Q. — Rangfifer tarandus areticus. 



Cervus tarandus arotious, Bichardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer. p. 23, 1829. 

 Tarandus areticus, Baird, Bep. Comm. Patents, 1851, vol. ii, Agric. 



p. 105, 1852. 

 Bangifer areticus, Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. viii, p. 234, 



1896 ; Elliot, Synop. Mamm. N. Amer. (Field Mus. Zool. Pub. 



vol. ii) p. 37, 1901, Cat. Mamm. Field Mus. (op. cit. vol. viii) 



p. 41, 1907 ; Grant, 1th Bep. New York Zool. Soc. p. 5, 1902 ; 



Stone and Cram, American Animals, p. 53, 1903 ; HoUister, 



Smithson. Misc. Collect, vol. Ivi, no. 35, pi. i, 1912 ; Miller, List 



N. Amer. Mamm. p. 391, 1912. 



Eangifer tarandus areticus, Lydehher, Deer of All Lands, p. 47, 1898, 

 Great and Small Game of Europe, etc. p. 38, 1901 ; Ward, 

 Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 84, 1910, ed. 7, p. 84, 1914. 



Baerbn-Ground Caribou. 



Typical locality Fort Enterprise, Mackenzie district, 

 Canada. 



Size relatively small. Antlers (fig. 44) very long, slender, 

 and rounded, with few points on the expanded portion of the 

 beam, which is separated by a long interval from the third 

 tine ; the latter, which is but slightly palmated, generally 

 with one of the basal tines more or less expanded ; back- 

 tine usually, if not always, wanting; female-antlers much 

 smaller, simpler, and scarcely curved at all. General colour 

 in summer clove-brown, mingled with reddish and yellowish 

 brown, under-parts white ; in winter entire coat dirty white ; 

 lower incisors diminishing suddenly in size from the middle 

 to the outer pair, which are very small. 



51. 10. 24. 1. Skull and antlers. Arctic America. 



Purchased (Argent), 1851. 



55. 5. 14. 2 (702, w). Skeleton and antlers. Arctic 

 America ; collected by Dr. J. Eae. Purchased, 1855. 



7. 9. 4. 7. Skull and antlers. Baffinland. 



Presented hy Craivford Nolle, Esq., 1907. 



