. Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean . s species to the European reindeer are not well ascertained. By somezoologists it is supposed to be the same; by others different. The opinion is gaining groundthat the barren ground reindeer is distinct, and as this species cuts it off from the arctic circle,it would seem most probable that it cannot be the same with the animal inhabiting the circum-pokr region of the Old L 634 U. S. p. R. R. EXP. AND SURVEYS ZOOLOGY GENERAL RE
. Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean . s species to the European reindeer are not well ascertained. By somezoologists it is supposed to be the same; by others different. The opinion is gaining groundthat the barren ground reindeer is distinct, and as this species cuts it off from the arctic circle,it would seem most probable that it cannot be the same with the animal inhabiting the circum-pokr region of the Old L 634 U. S. p. R. R. EXP. AND SURVEYS ZOOLOGY GENERAL REPORT. The woodland caribou, as it is called by Dr. Kichardson, is mucb larger than the barren groundreindeer found further north, but with smaller horns. According to this author, its northernlimit is to the south of Hudsons bay, in a stripe of low primitive rocks about one hundredmiles wide, and reaching as far west as Lake Superior. To the south it extends throughCanada as far as New Brunswick and Maine, and possibly, in former times, to the northernparts of New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. It is not known as an inhabitant of theEocky Fig. 3. Rangifcr caribcu, No. 900. Isle Royale, Lake Superior. Right horn from inside. Size, inches to the 4. Rangifer caribou, No. 1198 Trois Rivieres, Canada. Young, of probably second year. Right horn, view from inside. Size, 4 inches to the 5. Do. The left horn of the same animal viewed from the outside. Size, inches to the 6. Do., No. 1199. Another horn from the same locality. Right side from inside. Size, inches to the inch. KANGIFEK GROENLANDICUS. Barren Ground Caribou. Ccrtiis tarandus groenlandicus, Kerr, Linneeus, 1792, tarandus, var. a, arctica, Rich. F. B. Am. I, 1829, 241, (fig. of horns.)King. Narr. Capt Backs Exped, II, 1836, arcticus, Baird, in U. S Pat. Off. Rep. Agricultural for 1851, (1852,) tarandus (Tuklxi,) Rich, Zoology of Hera
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