CONGENERS. 829 
improvement in size may be met among the wild Specimens in 
that far eastern country. The difference in size, therefore, be- 
tween the eastern and the western varieties is not universal, but 
is only observed when ours is compared with those of the North 
of Europe. 
In form, also, there is an appreciable difference between the 
American and European varieties of this deer. This will be 
readily appreciated by comparing the illustrations here presented 
Wild European Reindeer, Male. 
of a pair of wild Reindeer in the Zovlogical Gardens at Berlin, 
which were drawn by a skillful artist there under the supervision 
of Prof. William Peters, expressly for this work, and the illustra- 
tions of the Woodland Caribou (see pp. 85, 88). The former 
has more the form of a prize bullock than of a deer. Ours isa 
little more graceful in form, but still lacks those symmetrical pro- 
portions, which would suggest those agile movements of which 
