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A typical summer specimen (No. 6028 cf), taken at Nettilling lake on 
August 8, 1925, is a rich clove-brown over the entire back from a point 
immediately forward of the shoulders to the rump and over the sides and 
down fore and hindlegs. The belly and buttocks are white, the line between 
the two colour areas being very sharply defined. The upper part of the 
neck is greyish buff, with the middle line darker, the same colour extending 
to the back of the ears, crown of the head, and the face. The under neck 
and throat are much whiter. The upper side of the tail is of the same colour 
as the back. On this individual, as on others, there is an incipient lighter 
and greyer line within the dark area along the sides. The hair length is 
as follows: back, 30 mm.; buttocks, 40-60 mm.; belly, 20 mm.; throat, 
60-70 mm. 
On a specimen (No. 5536 cf) killed in Bear sound, Cumberland sound, 
on August 28, 1924, the hair over the back is 40-45 mm. long, on the 
buttocks 40-60 mm., belly 35-40 mm., and throat 90-120 mm. 
Two fawns (Nos. 6033 cf and 6035 cf) collected at Nettilling lake in 
late August, 1925, are soft to bone brown over the back and sides, the 
colour extending to the legs, but becoming paler below hock and knee. On 
one animal (No. 6033) a narrow, greyish line extends down the front of the 
leg between the knee and the toes. The face is much darker with greyish 
areas. The belly, buttocks, under side of tail, and a narrow line up the 
middle of the throat, are white. In fawns of this age the pelage is beauti- 
fully soft and silky, with none of the coarseness of hair that characterizes 
the adults. The average length of the hair over the back of these specimens 
is 25 mm. 
Matschie (See Hantzsch, Introduction 1913, p. 143) remarks that the 
antlers of Rangifer, as drawn by Hantzsch, point significantly to the existence 
of two very different races of caribou. So far as the present writer could 
discover, there is nothing to indicate that more than one race occupies the 
island. What Matschie considered features distinguishing between two 
races, seem to be merely individual variations, which are much in evidence 
in the antlers of the barren ground caribou. 
Measurements of Rangifer arcticus 
No. 
Date 
Locality 
Sex 
Length 
Tail 
Foot 
5707 
Oct. 
22, 1924.. 
22, 1924.. 
Pang’nirtuno’ fiord 
cf 
9 fawn 
Mm. 
1,680 
1,351 
1,453 
1,530 
1,708 
1,683 
1,683 
1 , 632 
Mm. 
153 
102 
Mm. 
535 
5708 
tt 
it 
459 
5709 
u 
22, 1924.. 
22, 1924.. 
ti 
9 faw 
127 
510 
5710 
u 
a 
9 
102 
484 
5711 
it 
22, 1924.. 
22, 1924. . 
tt 
cf 
153 
561 
5712 
it 
tt 
9 
127 
485 
5713 
u 
22, 1924.. 
tt 
o’ 
127 
535 
5714 
tt 
22, 1924.. 
it 
9 
127 
561 
5715 
u 
22, 1924.. 
tt 
9 
1,581 
1,989 
1,810 
1,989 
2 014 
113 
510 
5740 
Mar. 
8, 1925.. 
Kingnait pass 
cf 
204 
561 
0028 
Aug. 
Si 
8, 1925.. 
14, 1925. 
Nettilling lake. 
cf 
6030 
a “ 
cf 
153 
535 
6031 
it 
19, 1925. . 
tt 
cf 
139 
535 
6032 
it 
19, 1925.. 
a 
9 
1,861 
1,250 
1,122 
114 
510 
6033 
tt 
26, 1925. . 
a 
cf fawn 
114 
431 
6035 
it 
31, 1925.. 
u 
cf “ 
108 
382 
