THE CARIBOU 
head in every hundred has good double brows. This, however, often means 
that the bays or tops may be poor, so that a head that is complete in all 
parts is extremely rare, and I have only seen three that answer this 
description, namely, a pair of small horns measuring 36 inches, picked 
up by Mr H. Prichard on the Gander, carrying forty-nine points; a head 
(shot by myself in the same place) with forty-nine points; and one in the 
possession of Mr H. Reid with forty-seven points, killed in the north of 
the island. 
The most remarkable head ever killed in Newfoundland, now owned 
by Mr Job, was shot by an Indian a few years ago. It bears fifty-six points, 
but the tops are small. A very fine fifty pointer, with grand brows and bays, 
was killed in 1969 and is owned by Mr H. M. Breck. A forty-seven pointer 
with enormous bays was killed at the Bungalow near Grand Lake in 1966, 
and the same year I killed a forty-four pointer almost exactly like it 
(with twenty -two points on the bays only) near Mount Sylvester. All these 
last named had very poor tops. 
The usual Newfoundland male caribou has from eighteen to thirty points 
and far the greater number never have more than twenty -five points. 
Mr Madison Grant very properly does not accept the two -race theory 
in Newfoundland which some of the natives speak of. Certain groups of 
deer inhabiting different areas, where food is abundant at all seasons, 
do not migrate at all, whilst numbers of migrating deer pass through 
their midst. There is no such thing as races of “ small ” and “ large ” 
caribou in the island, such animals being merely variations of indi- 
viduals. The largest Newfoundland caribou out of forty -five specimens 
shot by myself measured 46f inches at the withers and was 96 inches 
from the nose to the root of the tail. It was an exceptional animal, and had, 
like all big individual deer, very poor horns. 
Tarandus rangifer labradorensis (sub -spec. nov.). Considerably larger 
than the true (so-called) barren-land caribou of Richardson, the race in- 
habiting the northern peninsula of Labrador differs from them in many 
particulars. They are more bulky and darker on the upper parts, whilst 
the horns are quite distinct. The average of horns brought into Nain, 
Davis Inlet and Fort Chimo range between 55 and 60 inches in length, 
and have a very well marked bend forwards in their lateral half. The chief 
distinction, however, is the length of the shafts which support the brows 
and bays, which are very long. The palmated brow is usually very wide 
and furnished with very small points on its lower outer edge and very long 
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