Records of big game : with the distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements of the different species / [Rowland Ward].

  • Ward, Rowland, 1848?-1912.
Date:
1903
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Credit: Records of big game : with the distribution, characteristics, dimensions, weights, and horn & tusk measurements of the different species / [Rowland Ward]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of long white hair covering a gland on the hock, but none on the hind cannon-bone. Height at shoulder reaching to 4 feet 10 inches (New- foundland). Reindeer inhabit the circumpolar regions of both hemispheres, in Europe including Scandinavia, Lapland, and Northern Russia ; their Antlers of Male Woodland Reindeer from Nova Scotia. From a specimen in the British Museum. southern limit varies from 52 to 54° N. latitude, while they extend to between 80 and 81 northwards. Several varieties, or local races, of reindeer are recognised. The more important are: (1) the Scandinavian reindeer (R. tarandus typicus) of Northern Europe and Asia, which is a rather small animal with moderately expanded antlers ; (2) the Spitzbergen rein- deer (R. tarandus spetzbergensis'), characterised by the peculiar form of the nasal bones of the skull ; (3) the woodland reindeer (R. tarandus