. The American natural history; a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. Natural history. 134 OKDEES OF MAMMALS—HOOFED ANIMALS gray, which color also suffuses the neck, head and hind-(iuarters. In October the new coat is of a dark color known as seal brown, quite differ- ent from the same pelage in spring. Originally the Newfoundland Caribou were referred to the species named above, but in 1S96 they were given rank as an independent species (R. terraenovae) chiefly on account of their very light color. They are the whitest of all caribou. In 1899, Mr. Ernest Tho


. The American natural history; a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. Natural history. 134 OKDEES OF MAMMALS—HOOFED ANIMALS gray, which color also suffuses the neck, head and hind-(iuarters. In October the new coat is of a dark color known as seal brown, quite differ- ent from the same pelage in spring. Originally the Newfoundland Caribou were referred to the species named above, but in 1S96 they were given rank as an independent species (R. terraenovae) chiefly on account of their very light color. They are the whitest of all caribou. In 1899, Mr. Ernest Thompson Seton described. ANTLERS OP KENAI CARIBOU. From photograph of specimen t;iken on the Kcnai Peninsula in 190I-), by JlAitiiY E. Lee. the Black-Faced Caribou of southeastern British Columbia (Revelstoke) as Raiiijija- mon- ianus, or Mountain Caribou. The new Sep- tember coat is almost black. The antlers are short, but throw off a surprising array of long tines. In 1902 the large, dark-colored caribou of the Cassiar Mountains, in northern British Columbia, was described by Dr. J. A. Allen as Osborn's Caribou [Rungifer osbunii), the name bestowed being in honor of Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn, the distinguished zoologist of the Ameri- can Museum of Natural History. This species attains a shoulder height of 55 inches, and is said to be the largest of all caribou. In September its coat is so brown the animal has been described as a brown caribou. The Kenai Caribou of the Kenai Peninsula— but, in 1903 almost extinct in that locality— was described in 1901 as a distinct species, and christened Rangifer sionei. In September, 1903, the Secretary of Agriculture issued an order pro- hibiting for five years the killing of caribou on the Kenai and Alaska Peninsulas. Regarding the distribution and habits of cari- bou in the Canadian Northwest, !Mr. J. B. Tyrrell, who, while a member of the Canadian Geological Survey, travelled over a greater area of the range of that animal th


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