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among the race. Mr. Wallop speaks of their “ dark- 
brown hides,” and some Canadian sportsmen have ob- 
jected to my description ; still I prefer letting what I 
have written stand, since I wrote from actual inspection 
of Newfoundland Cariboo skins ; and until I have seen 
others of darker hue, must hold in absence of other proof 
what I have seen to be true. 
If the Cariboo of the other British provinces, and the 
North-eastern States of America, differ in color from 
those of Newfoundland, my too general statement may 
perhaps tend to elicit farther information, by which the 
numbers and distinctions of the several varieties may be 
definitively attained. . 
It is not a little extraordinary, that this magnificent 
and noble species, which exists in considerable numbers 
within two hundred miles of the spot where I sit writing, 
in the Adirondack Highlands—I mean of New York— 
which abounds in the north-eastern part of Maine, 
swarms in New Brunswick and Newfoundland, and in- 
deed everywhere North of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa, 
to the extremest Arctic Regions yet penetrated by the 
foot of man, should be yet less known to American 
writers—even on the topic of Natural History—than 
most animals of Central Asia, or the inhospitable wilds of 
Southern Africa. It is not even determined—so little care 
has been taken in examining or identifying specimens 
whether it is one and the same, or a different species 
from the Reindeer of the Europe-Asiatic continent; nor 
