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BIG GAME OP NORTH AMERICA. 



and on the whole upper surface; outside of legs brown; a band of white around 

 all the legs adjoining the hoofs, and extending to the small secondary hoofs; 

 horns yellowish-brown, worn white in places. 



This description is, in the main, correct. The rather 

 arbitrary dimensions given of the horns is scarcely borne 

 out or corroborated by the practical naturalist known as 



Woodland Caribou. 



the hunter. The horns measured by Audubon for this 

 description were probably those of a female, which are 

 much smaller than the antlers of the male. I have two sets 

 of horns of the Woodland Caribou, both of which came 

 from the vicinity of the Kakabonga Lake, above the Desert, 

 on the Gatineau River. They are singulaily dissimilar in 

 appearance, and, from the size, I judge that both belong to 

 male heads. 



