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CARIBOU OR A'i'.'i'. “JCAN REINDEER. 
Reindeer, or Raindeer, Drage, Voy., vol. i. p. 25. 
Dobbs’ Hudson’s Bay, pp. 19, 22. 
“ Pennant’s Arctic Zoology, vol. i. p. 22. 
“ Cartwright’s Labrador, pp. 91, 112, 133. 
“ Franklin’s First Voyage, pp. 240, 245. 
Cervus Tarandus. Harlan, Fauna, p. 232 . 
“ Godman, Nat. Hist., vol. ii. p. 283. 
— Reindeer or Caribou, Rich., F. B. A., p. 238. 
Rangifer Tarandus— Reindeer. DeKay, Nat. Hist. State of New York, p. 121. 
Attehk. Cree Indians. 
Ettiiin. Chippewvan Indians. 
Tooktoo. Esquimaux. 
Tukta. Greenlanders. 
Carre-bceuf, or Caribou. French Canadians. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Young, about two years and a half old. 
Larger and less graceful than the common American deer ; body, stout 
and heavy ; neck, short ; hoofs, thin, flattened, broad and spreading, exca- 
vated or concave beneath ; accessory hoofs, large but thin ; legs, stout ; 
no glandular opening and scarcely a perceptible inner tuft on the hind 
legs ; nose, somewhat like that of a cow, but fully covered with soft hairs 
of moderate length ; no beard, but on the under side of the. neck a line of 
hairs about four inches in length which hang down in a longitudinal direc- 
tion. Ears, small, short, and ovate, thickly clothed with hair on both 
surfaces ; horns, one foot three and a half inches in height, slender (one 
with two, and the other with one, prong) ; prongs, about five inches long. 
Hair, soft and woolly underneath, the longer hairs like those of the 
antelope, crimped or waved, and about one to one and a half inches long. 
COLOUR. 
At the roots the hairs are whitish, then become brownish-gray, and at 
the tips are light dun gray, whiter on the neck than elsewhere ; nose, ears, 
outer surface of legs, and shoulder, brownish ; a slight shade of the same 
tint behind the fore legs. 
Hoofs, black ; neck and throat, dull white ; a faint whitish patch on the 
sides of the shoulders ; forehead, brownish-white ; belly, white ; tail, white, 
with a slight shade of brown at the root and on the whole upper surface ; 
outside of legs, brown ; a band of white around all the legs adjoining the 
hoofs, and extending to the small secondary hoofs ; horns, yellowish-brown, 
worn whiter in places. 
