102 THE SElOtTS COLLECTION. 



NEWFOUNDLAND CARIBOU. 



EaNMEEB TAEABDTTS TEEB^NOTiE. 



Bangifer terrsenovss, Bangs, Desoript. Newfoundland Caribou, Boston, 1896. 

 Bangifer tarandus terrsenovse, Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. viii. 

 p. 235, 1896. 



Antlers massive and much palmated, with a large nmnber of 

 points. General colour paler than in the following race. 



Among the heads in the Collection there is one (No. 19. 7. 15. 482) 

 with exceptionally beautiful horns, bearing no less than 40 points ; 

 the measurements of this specimen are as follows : — ^length on 

 outside curve 40^ ; circumference 8 ; greatest width inside 36| ; 

 spread from tip to tip 28^. Points 21 + 19'. 



Typical locality, Newfoundland, to which Island the race is 

 confined. 



511 —19.7.15.481. 2 November, 1900. Terra Nova Lake, New- 

 foundland. 

 512-515 —19.7.15.482-485. September, 1901. St. John's Lake, 

 Newfoundland. 



516 —19.7.15.486. 20 October, 1905. King George IV Lake, 



Newfoundland. 



517 —19.7.15.487. 23 October, 1905.. Lloyds Lake, Exploits 



River, Newfoundland. 



518 —19. 7. 15. 488. 1 November, 1905. Mount Ramsay, Exploits 



River, Newfoundland. 



OSBOKN'S CARIBOU. 



Rangifee taeandtjs osboeni. 



Bangifer osborni, Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. xvi. p. 149, 



figs. 1 and 2, 1902. 

 Bangifer tarandus osborni, Ward, Records of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 85, 1910 ; 



ed. 7, p. 85, 1914. 



Antlers, rather of the Barren-Ground type, but considerably 

 greater in size ; general colour darker than in the Newfoundland 

 race. 



The following series contains some very iine heads, the best 

 being No. 19. 7. 15. 494 : — length of horns on outside curve 57j ; 



