980 



UNGULATA 



KEY TO THE EUROPEAN SPECIES OP BANGIFEB. 



Size small, upper length of skull less than 



225 mm. (Spitzbergen) R. platyrhynchus, p. 985. 



Size large, upper length of skull about 270- 



300 mm. 



Upper length of skull in adult male 270- 



290 mm. ; upper tooth-row about 95 mm. 



(treeless alpine portions of Norway and 



formerly of Sweden, now rare except in 



captivity) B. tarandus,}). 980. 



Upper length of skull in adult male about 

 300 mm. ; upper tooth-row about 85 mm. 

 (wooded portions of northern Firmland 

 and formerly of northern Sweden) B. fennicus, p. 981. 



RANGIFER TARANDUS Linnaeus. 



1758. [Cervus] tarandus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., i, 10th ed., p. 67. 



1789. [Cervus tarandus] a rangifer Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 13th ed., p. 177. 



1827. Tarandus lapponum Billberg, Synopsis Faunae Scandinaviae, I, p. 22 



(Renaming of C. tarandus). 

 1842. Tarandus borealis Ruppell, Museum Senckenbergianum, III, p, 183 



(Renaming of C. tarandus). 



Fia. 2in. 

 Rangifer tarandus. x -\. 



