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ring round the eye. On the limbs the white is restricted to a sharply- 

 defined band of about half an inch in width just above the hoofs, but 

 ascending behind to enclose the lateral hoofs. In the British Museum 

 example the tarsal tufts are much less conspicuous than in the Scandinavian 

 reindeer ; and the muzzle has rather more white than Dr. Allen describes. 



Regarding the variations in colour displayed by the woodland race, Mr. 

 Caton writes that while the head and legs " are always distinctly coloured, 

 in a large majority of individuals white 

 predominates, especially on the neck, 

 which is almost universally the whitest 

 portion of the animal. The long white 

 mane of the old buck is a very striking 

 characteristic. . . . There is less uni- 

 formity in the colour of the bodv than 

 of the head, neck, and legs. While the 

 head and legs are tawny brown of varying 

 intensity, and the neck white, in some 

 much more pronounced than in others, 

 the bodv is sometimes nearly all white ; 

 but others are a rich rufous brown on 

 the back as well as the legs, and only 

 the tail and rump are white above, the 

 belly and inside of the legs being also 

 white. Like all the others, the early 

 winter coat, which replaces the summer 

 coat in September, is of the deepest 

 colour, is finer, softer, and more brilliant 

 than later, when the clove-brown shade 

 which first prevailed has given place to the dirty white of mid-winter." 



A fine pair of antlers from Siberia in the British Museum show all the 

 characteristics of the American form, and lead to the conclusion that the 

 range of the latter extends into Eastern Asia. If the Siberian form prove 

 distinct, it will apparently require a new sub-specific name, as it cannot be 

 identified with the Scandinavian race. The antlers from Nova Scotia 

 represented in Fig. 7 exhibit the extreme development of the woodland race, 

 approximating in their massiveness to the Newfoundland race, but have 



Fig. 7. — Side view of Skull and Antlers of 

 Male Woodland Reindeer. From a Nova 

 Scotian specimen in the British Museum. 



