. The big game of North America. Its habits, habitats, haunts, and characteristics; how, when, and where to hunt it .. . e with two andthe other with one prong; prongs about five inches long; hair soft and woollyunderneath, the longer hairs, like those of the Antelope, crimped or waved, andabout one to one and a half inches long. At the roots the hairs are whitish, becoming brownish-gray, and at the topslight dun-gray, whiter on the neck than elsewhere; nose, ears, and outer sur-face of legs brownish; a slight shade of the same tinge behind the black, and throat dull-white; a fa
. The big game of North America. Its habits, habitats, haunts, and characteristics; how, when, and where to hunt it .. . e with two andthe other with one prong; prongs about five inches long; hair soft and woollyunderneath, the longer hairs, like those of the Antelope, crimped or waved, andabout one to one and a half inches long. At the roots the hairs are whitish, becoming brownish-gray, and at the topslight dun-gray, whiter on the neck than elsewhere; nose, ears, and outer sur-face of legs brownish; a slight shade of the same tinge behind the black, and throat dull-white; a faint whitish patch on the side of theshoulders; forehead brownish-white; tad white, with a shade of brown at the root C<3; 74 Bia GAME OF NORTH AMERICA. and on the whole upper surface; outside of legs brown; a band of white aroundall the legs adjoining the hoofs, and extending to the small secondary hoofs;horns yellowish-brown, worn white in places. This description is, in the main, correct. The ratherarbitrary dimensions given of the horns is scarcely borneout or corroborated by the practical naturalist known as. Woodland Caribou. the hunter. The horns measured by Audubon for thisdescription were probably those of a female, which aremuch smaller than the antlers of the male. I have two setsof horns of the Woodland Caribou, both of which camefrom the vicinity of the Kakabonga Lake, above the Desert,on the Gatineau River. They are singularly dissimilar inappearance, and, from the size, I judge that both belong tomale heads. » I THE CARIBOU. 75 I saw a i)air of Caribou-horns some years ago whichwere much larger, more massive and wide-si)reacling, andhad many more and longer prongs, than either of every other variety of the genus Cermdce, the hornsof the Caribou are deciduous. Caribou drop their hornsbetween the first of January and the end of new liorns then commence growing slowly untilthe advent of warm spring weather, when they shoot upwith amazing r
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