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Norway, more like the cafions of the West than any mountain gorges 
we have seen elsewhere, are not mentioned. 
But of the reindeer and Scandinavian elk our author speaks with the 
interest and decision of an expert, and his opinion on the specific rela- 
tions of these animals with our caribou and moose should receive due 
consideration. 
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The red deer (Fig. 1), now confined in Norway to the two islands of 
Hatterroen and Smien, and which in Bohemia has successfully interbred 
with the American Wapati deer, the author suggests is conspecific with the 
Wapati or American elk (Cervus Canadensis). So also the reindeer (Fig. 
2, male, Fig. 3, female) is, we believe, correctly regarded as the same species 
4s our caribou. Judge Caton, in his visit to the Lapps, went among a herd 
of these timid animals, and had a good opportunity of studying them. He 
remarks that in size “this deer is less than our woodland caribou, with 
which it is identical in species, but in Eastern Asia the domesticated rein- 
deer is a much larger and finer animal than in Lapland, and closely re- 
sembles in form and development our woodland caribou. There they are 
used for the saddle by the Tunguses, and highly prized for that purpose, 
