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female of this species, which was procured in Champlain 

 County, Canada, and forwarded to the Society by one of 

 our members, Mr. George S. Huntington. These animals, 

 when present in the Park, will be kept in a small enclo- 

 sure, because a large range containing an abundance of 

 green grass is fatal to them. 



The wild range of the Woodland Caribou extends from 

 Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Maine, with many wide 

 gaps, to the head waters of the Yukon River, in southern 

 Alaska. The following localities are worthy of special men- 

 tion : northern Quebec and Ontario ; James Bay ; the north- 

 ern end of Lake Winnipeg (occasionally) ; Lake of Woods, 

 Minnesota ; Oregon near Mount Hood ; northern Idaho ; 

 northwestern Montana, and the mountains of British Co- 

 lumbia. 



Quite recently, three new species of caribou have been 

 added to our fauna, one from the Alaskan Peninsula (Ran- 

 gifer granti), one from the Kenai Peninsula (Rangifer sto- 

 nei), and one from the Cassiar Mountains (Rangifer os- 

 borni). 



The Woodland Caribou attains nearly twice the bodily 

 bulk of its more northern congener, the Barren-Ground 

 caribou. In a state of nature it lives on browse, reindeer 

 moss, tree moss, and lichens, and it loves ice-covered lakes 

 and ponds as much as any boy. Its loose-jointed and wide 

 spreading hoofs and enormously developed "dew-claws" 

 have been specially designed by Nature to enable this ani- 

 mal to run freely, as if on snow-shoes, over snow or bogs, 

 which to any small-hoofed deer would be quite impassable. 



The female Woodland Caribou is provided with small ant- 

 lers, which, like those of the male, are shed and renewed 

 annually. 



In the absence of caribou in the Park, visitors are advised 

 to look for specimens of the Lapland Reindeer, (Rangifer 

 tarandus), for we shall endeavor to keep this genus rep- 

 resented. 



THE ZEBRA HOUSES, No. 14. 



Although the main building of this installation has not 

 yet been erected, the plan for the various buildings and 

 corrals has been approved, and the main building will be 

 begun in 1911 and completed in 1912. The three buildings, 

 and the extensive corrals connecting with them, will, as a 



