[ '56 ] 



BufFon makes but one article of the Rein and Elk ; he alfo 

 obferves, that when the latitude begins to be too warm for the 

 former, the Elks are firff. to be difcovered. North America 

 furnifhes, however, an exception to this obfervation, becaufe 

 Reins are found in Newfoundland, 50 s N. lat. and the Hudfon's- 

 bay Company have a noble fpecimen of Elk's horns in their 

 hall, which was fent them from their forts, fome of which are 

 nine degrees to the northward; at the fame time that the fitu- 

 ation is fo much more inland, and confequently from that circum- 

 ftance alfo the temperature more cold than might be expected, 

 merely from the fort's being nine degrees nearer to the Pole. On 

 the other hand IJbrand Ides met with a great many Reins not 

 far from Nezzinlkoi, which is only in N. lat. 50. at no great 

 diftance from the Eaftern Ocean. 



I mail now mention two or three particulars from Leemius, 

 with regard to the Rein, which have not been noticed by other 

 naturalifts. 



They are extravagantly fond of human urine, and lick up the 

 mow with the greateft avidity when the upper part hath been 

 flained by it ; poffibly, however, the opening the way to their 

 favourite lichen may be in part the occafion of their immediately 

 finding out fuch fpots. 



We have the fame authority for their killing a vaft number 

 of mice, which are called in the Lapland language Godde Saepaw, 

 and Lemtencr in the Norwegian. As their make, however, is 

 not defcrihed, and as I can find no names which bear the leaft 

 affinity in the Fauna Suecica, it is impoflible to fettle the fpecies. 

 Poffibly alfo the Reins only ufe this food when they can pro- 

 cure no other; it is for the fame reafon that the Lapland gulls are 

 faid likewife to feed on mice, and the crows to tear the linen which 

 4 is 



