THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
Asymmetry in reindeer antlers is, in fact, the usual feature. There 
is generally a single spike for a brow on one side and the brow of the 
other more or less palmated. The bays are also more or less palmated 
and furnished with a number of points. The tops are well developed with 
from three to ten long tines in Norwegian, Labrador, Barrenland, Cassiar, 
Alaskan and Greenland specimens; but are usually small and stumpy in 
woodland caribou of North Central Canada, Newfoundland and Central 
Asia. The most irregular feature in all local races is the position of the 
back -tine, which in the Newfoundland, Central Canadian and Central 
Asian races is generally low on the posterior margin of the horns and high 
up in Osborn’s caribou of Northwestern America, the Barren Ground race, 
Norway and North Eastern Asia. For many years I have made a special 
study of the reindeer or caribou and its local races, having spent eight 
seasons in its pursuit, as well as collecting a few of the best specimens of 
those races which time allows me to hunt. By far the longest antlers are those 
from the peninsula embracing Hudson’s Bay and N.E. Labrador, and I have 
records of ten examples over 61 inches in length. The longest on record 
is one of 67£ inches, which was killed by an Esquimaux in N.E. Labrador, 
and is now in my possession. The next in length are those from the Alaskan 
peninsula, of which the American Museum of Natural History alone pos- 
sesses a fine series. Perhaps the heaviest heads come from Cassiar (N. British 
Columbia) and Alaska. For number of points the seventy -one -pointer, 
described by Cartwright, holds the record, and after much trouble I have 
traced it. It was killed at the end of the eighteenth century near Cart- 
wright, Central Labrador. In the “ Field ” I described and figured a 
remarkable Newfoundland head of fifty -six points and myself shot a head 
of fifty-three points in Cassiar in 1908. At Mattawa Colonel Rankin 
possesses an extraordinary woodland caribou head of fifty -nine points 
killed by an Indian near Abatibi, N. Ontario. The local races of reindeer 
will, however, be dealt with separately in the succeeding volumes of this 
series, and it is our purpose now to describe more particularly the races 
inhabiting Europe. 
1. SCANDINAVIAN RACE 
Rangifer tarandus typicus 
The most characteristic feature of this typical race is the broad black 
line extending from the foreleg along the flank. This does not occur in 
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