THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
barren-land race of North, Central and Eastern Labrador, Tarandus 
rangifer labradorensis. Again, these assume their finest form between 
Cape Chidley and Ungava. These are the finest horned of all races and are 
said to be nearly extinct. To the south and west of Hudson Bay smaller 
members of this race meet the migration of the true “barren-land race,’’ 
Tarandus rangifer arcticus (Richardson) which ranges south of Great Bear 
Lake and west of the Mackenzie to North-Eastern Alaska. The caribou 
of the Mackenzie River are slightly different from those of Alaska, north 
of the Tanana River, and the small race in the islands in the extreme west 
of Alaska. The caribou of the Ogilvy Mountains north of Dawson are also 
a distinct sub-species and like those of the Alaskan peninsula, Tarandus 
rangifer stonei , are an intermediate race between Tarandus rangifer osborni 
and Tarandus rangifer arcticus , having the characteristics of both races. 
The caribou of Central Keewatin are closely allied to Tarandus rangifer 
caribou , but are smaller and more spreading in their horns, being also 
a buffer race between north and south. In dealing with the races of 
reindeer west of the Rockies, that is, within Northern British Columbia, 
Idaho and north to the mouth of the Yukon, there seems to be no real sub- 
specific distinction between any of these. The caribou of Idaho, Kootenay, 
Fort George and Southern British Columbia are Tarandus rangifer 
rnontanus (Thompson Seton), but they suddenly become a giant race in 
Chilcotin, where specimens are identical with Tarandus rangifer osborni 
of Northern British Columbia, the Yukon and the plateaux of its adjacent 
branches. Nearly all these western forms are black bellied and very 
dark grey on the neck. In fact, as Mr Madison Grant points out, there is 
a distinct gradation between Osborn’s caribou in Alaska and the Arctic 
races, the intermediate forms being Tarandus rangifer stonei , Tarandus 
rangifer granti and, I think, Tarandus rangifer ogilvyensis. 
If we are to recognize the various North American sub -specific races, 
I think they should be as follows: 
NORTH AMERICAN REINDEER 
Tarandus rangifer caribou (Gmelin). Description: Light or dark brown 
above; a dark line across the flank (but in no sense a black flank stripe as 
in European and some American races), with a light line immediately 
above; neck generally white; lower neck hair, white; legs, blackish with 
a broad band of white above the hoof; muzzle and head, black, except white 
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