THE REIN-DEER. 



Generic Characters. 

 Horns upright, folid, branched, annually deciduous. 

 Eight cutting teeth in the lower jaw ; none in the upper. 



Synonims. 

 Cervus Tarandus, Linn. Syjl. 93. 

 Rhen, Linn. Faun. fuec. No. 41. 

 Renntheir, Klein Quad. 23. 



Cervus Rangifer, Rati Syn. Quad. 88. Gefner Quad. 839, 840, 



Le Renne, de Buffon, xii. 79. tab. x. xi. xii. 



Le Rangier, ou Ranglier, Go/Ion de Foix, 98. 



Caribo, Pohano, Macarib, Joffelhis New England Rarities, 20. 



Le Caribou, Charlevoix Hijl. nouv. France, v. 190. 



THERE is no inftance, in the whole creation, in which the kind care of 

 Providence is more remarkably difplayed, than in the conformation of this 

 animal. Deftined to adminifler to the wants and comfort of the inhabitants 

 of regions covered with perpetual fnow, during a great part of the year, its 

 conliitution is fo well adapted to the rigour of the climates it inhabits, that, 

 if it is removed from them, and brought into warmer countries, it does not 

 long furvive the change, but gradually dwindles away, and at length perifhes 

 in the mid It of apparent plenty. Contrary in its nature to all other kinds of 

 Deer, its exiftence feems to depend on what would infallibly prove their 

 deftrudion ; and although timidity is the leading character of all other 

 animals of this clafs, the Rein-Deer, when bred tame, readily affociates with 

 his keeper, receives careffes from him with evident fatisfaction, and contributes 



