THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
one shot by Major Norrie near Dease Lake, and now in the Natural History 
Museum, London. The tops are very massive and the span between the 
horns nearly sixty inches (though I have not yet measured it). 
The largest head of this race was shot by Mr Clifford Little in 1907 to 
the south of Telegraph Creek, and I give its portrait here. It is a typical 
head of T. r. osborni. 
In 1911 a head of 61 inches was obtained in the Cassiar country and 
another of 62 inches was killed in Alaska a few years ago, said to be 
T. r. stonei , and now in the possession of Mr Case of Juneau. 
The measurement of two bulls shot by myself in Cassiar was 47| inches 
and 49 inches at the withers, and 95 and 98 inches from the nose to 
the root of the tail. In weight they certainly approach the wapiti, and are 
said to scale as much as 550 to 700 lb. (Grant); “ a specimen killed in the 
summer of 1912 measured 4 feet 11 inches in height at the shoulder and 
7 feet 9 inches in length.” (Grant.) 
Although there is great variation in pelage this may be said with truth 
to be a “ black caribou,” for I have seen one specimen that was dusky 
brownish black all over except the anal portion, round the testes, and 
surrounds of hoofs. The neck is usually grey with the “ beard ” white and 
belly dusky grey, but the neck of the fifty-three pointer, already alluded to, 
was quite white, which is probably very rare as I have not seen a similar 
specimen.* 
The specimen in the Natural History Museum, shot by Mr F. G. Selous 
on the Macmillan headwaters, seems to be exactly similar to those of 
Cassiar, and I can see no difference between these and the Chilcotin caribou 
shot by Mr Sage and those of the Itcha Mountains of Central British 
Columbia. 
Mr Lydekker (“Field,” Dec. 6, 1902) says that “ the antlers (T. r. osborni) 
moreover, correspond in form and proportion with those of the barren- 
ground reindeer, and thus serve to connect the Selkirk and Alaskan race. 
The distinctness of the Cassiar from the Selkirk caribou accordingly seems 
to be well established.” I cannot agree with this, for the heads of the Cassiar 
race, as I have pointed out, embrace every type of reindeer antlers, varying 
from the short, massive and thick Newfoundland type to the spindly type 
found in T. r. stonei , whilst the body markings are in most cases 
absolutely similar to those of T. r. montanus. In both cases there are the 
* Since writing the above I have seen in Messrs R. Ward & Co.’s possession two heads of male caribou from Cassiar, 
shot in 1913. Both of these had pure white necks. 
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