THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
ones on the upper edge. These often stand up high and curl backwards. 
The points, too, on the bays are long and often curl inwards. The horns 
of these deer are more spreading and graceful than other local races, 
whilst the skulls are longer and far larger than Tarandus rangifer arcticus. 
They are, in fact, more distinct from Tarandus rangifer arcticus than the 
Newfoundland caribou are from those of the mainland. 
Range. William Wallace, Sir Robert Harvey and other travellers found 
the T. r. caribou all the way up through Labrador as far north as Lake 
Mickikamau, where it is replaced by the sub-species which performs its 
migrations in an easterly and westerly direction. It is found in large 
numbers through the province of jl Ungava, having a southerly limit in 
Mickikamau and Seal Lake (Mr S. Hubbard), an easterly limit by the sea 
at Davis Inlet, where Mr Cabot found them in large numbers in August. In 
the west it ranges to James Bay, and Mr S. Hubbard saw the last five 
degrees south of Ungava port. Their migrations to the east coast at Nain 
are fitful and irregular, though they come to the George River with some 
regularity, this being the great slaughter place of the Nascopie Indians. 
Until recently they ranged north close to Cape Chidley but have now 
been almost exterminated there by the Esquimaux from the coast. 
There seems little doubt that T. r. labradorensis attains, or did attain, its 
greatest size in this north-east corner of Labrador, south of Cape Chidley, 
for until recently the longest, and in many respects the largest, caribou 
heads in the world have come from this area. Most of the heads 
have been brought to England by the captains of the Hudson Bay 
schooners on their return from Hudson Bay, and are in British private 
collections. There is a fine specimen in the Dunrobin Museum of 61 inches; 
another of 60 inches in Lochinch House, Wigtown, N.B., the property 
of the Earl of Stair; a third in Poltalloch House, Argyllshire, and a 
fourth in the British Museum, presented by Sir Robert Harvey. The 
finest specimen was killed in this district by an Esquimaux about the year 
1879, and brought by a Hudson Bay captain to London, where it was 
given to the late Mr Bartlett, superintendent of the Zoological Gardens. 
At his death it was purchased by the late Lord Power scourt, and recently 
it has passed into my collection. This is by far the largest head of a caribou 
in existence. The horns measure 67£ inches in length and are, moreover, 
of great thickness. They carry thirty -eight points and the tops and large 
brows are pal mated to an extraordinary degree. 
The skull of this great deer is as large as was that of Osborn’s caribou, 
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