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 is a 



large dark form, with rather stout antlers. The Green- 



_ °° an land and Barren Ground Caribou are both small forms, 

 Caribou. . ' 



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 

 oun am memrjers f f^Q 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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