THE CARIBOO. 
AMERICAN REINDEER.— Cervus Tarandus. 
Hasrrar; from Newfoundland, through all the British 
provinces and possessions so far north as the artic seas, 
to the northern part of the State of New York. The 
Cariboo is not found south of the St. Lawrence, farther 
west that the Black river, nor on the great lakes west- 
ward of the Ottawa. 
It is said that there exists several varieties of this 
splendid stag in the extreme northern regions, though 
they have not been defined even by the recent bold and 
scientific explorers of those inhospitable climes. 
I have, however, recently satisfied myself that there 
are, if not in Canada, at least in Newfoundland, two dis- 
tinct varieties of Cariboo, one vastly superior in size to 
the other, and characteristically separated from the 
smaller, by the form and structure of its horns. Of this 
I am satisfied, by the examination of a pair of antlers, 
lately exported from that curious and interesting island, 
by my friend, Dr. Hugh Caldwell, which differs entirely 
from those in my own possession, which furnished the 
models for my frontispiece, and from many specimens 
