. Natural history of animals;. Zoology. 42 VERTEBRATES ; MAMMALS. Maine, northern New York, and Canada, but is rapidly disappearing. The color is grayish brown. The Reindeer is a much smaller animal than the Moose, being about five feet long and three feet high. It has become celebrated for the services it renders the Laplanders, who keep large herds of Reindeer, and use them for beasts of burden and for drawing their sledges. Their milk and flesh are good for food, and their skins are used for clothing. They are very hardy animals,. Fig. 59. —American Reindeer, or Caribou. and subsist on the
. Natural history of animals;. Zoology. 42 VERTEBRATES ; MAMMALS. Maine, northern New York, and Canada, but is rapidly disappearing. The color is grayish brown. The Reindeer is a much smaller animal than the Moose, being about five feet long and three feet high. It has become celebrated for the services it renders the Laplanders, who keep large herds of Reindeer, and use them for beasts of burden and for drawing their sledges. Their milk and flesh are good for food, and their skins are used for clothing. They are very hardy animals,. Fig. 59. —American Reindeer, or Caribou. and subsist on the coarsest fare, eating the tender por- tions of shrubs in summer, and in winter scraping the snow from the ground and feeding upon the " reindeer ; The American Reindeer, or Caribou, of Maine and Canada, and otlier northern parts of North Amer- ica, is by some thought to be of the same kind as the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Tenney, Sanborn, 1827-1877; Tenney, Abby Amy Gove, 1836-. New York, Cincinnati [etc. ] American book Co
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