NORTH AMERICAN RUMINANTS 
its large size. The largest antlers have the remarkable spread of 
seventy-eight inches. The Museum is fortunate in the possession 
of a good series of this type of Moose, suitable for mounting as a 
group or as single specimens. For this valuable material we are 
indebted to the Andrew J. Stone expedition, for the mainte- 
nance of which the necessary funds have been generously con- 
tributed by friends of the Museum. 
The Caribou are even more boreal than the Moose. ‘They 
range next in size to it and the Elk, and have graceful, slender, 
profusely branching antlers. They are found from 
northern New England and British Columbia north- 
ward to the Arctic coast, and they occur also in Greenland. 
While the different varieties present general similarity, they 
differ greatly in size and in style of antlers, according to the 
regions they inhabit. The Newfoundland Caribou is an insular 
form restricted to the island from which it has received its name. 
It is characterized by short, heavy, much-branched antlers and 
very light coloration. Of this species the Museum has several 
mounted specimens, but it is especially desirable that it should 
be illustrated by a group. 
The Woodland Caribou, as its name implies, inhabits the 
woodlands of the colder parts of eastern North America. It isa 
large dark form, with rather stout antlers. The Green- 
land and Barren Ground Caribou are both small forms, 
with relatively long but very slender antlers. They 
are of special interest as representing the most northern type 
of the Deer tribe, their homes being the treeless Arctic 
tundra. Neither form is at present well represented in the 
collection. 
The Mountain Caribou is found in the Rocky mountains from 
British Columbia northward; it is represented in the mounted 
collection by a fine adult male. It is one of the largest 
members of the group, of very dark color and with 
massive antlers. In Alaska, there appear to be two 
other phases of this plastic group, one very large and the other 
small, with small, rather delicately formed antlers. This latter 
form is now represented by a good series of specimens, lately 
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Caribou. 
Woodland 
Caribou. 
Mountain 
Caribou. 
