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dew claws fulvous, the fulvous reaching up a short distance along median 

 line posteriorly ; fore legs abruptly black from body to hoof, with a nar 

 row fulvous patch on inner side of forearm ; hind legs and feet sooty 

 black, the black on inner side of thigh reaching up nearly to groin, and 

 on posterior aspect reaching nearly to rump in a band 40-50 mm. wide 

 which curves slightly outward on each side of lower part of rump patch ; 

 rump patch pale dull buffy-fulvous, deepening between thighs to pale 

 tan ; throat grizzled black and dark golden-brown, becoming darker ante 

 riorly, with a narrow median beard (about 30 mm. broad) of pale fulvous, 

 beginning opposite the angle of the mouth and sharply defined anteriorly 

 and laterally by a blackish border, spreading and fading posteriorly ; chin 

 and lower lip blackish with a sharply defined wedge-shaped mark of buffy 

 fulvous on each side of median line, its base at anterior edge of lip, its 

 apex directed posteriorly. Metatarsal gland (situate 160 mm. below heel 

 on outer side) a conspicuous oval patch of reddish fulvous about 80 mm. 

 in length, enclosing a white central stripe 35 mm. in length, and sur 

 rounded by the black of the leg and foot. 



Cranial characters. The skull of Cervus roosevelti, compared with that of 

 C. canadensis from the Rocky Mountains, is much larger, broader and more 

 massive. The frontals are not only conspicuously broader but are very 

 much flatter, giving the cranium a different profile. The muzzle also is 

 much broader. The cavities in front of the orbits, on the other hand, 

 are decidedly smaller. 



Measurements of type specimen. Total length, measured in flesh, 2490 mm. 

 (=8 ft. 2 in.) ; tail in dry skin about 80 mm. ; ears in dry skin: from 

 base posteriorly 225 mm., from base of opening 208 mm. 



Antlers : Spread 990 mm. (= 3 ft. 3 in.) ; length of left beam from burr to 

 tip 1050 (=41J in.) ; circumference just above burr 285 mm. (= 11^ in.) ; 

 least circumference above bez-tine 190 mm. (= 1\ in.). 



Antlers. The antlers are large, heavy and relatively short, with 

 the terminal prongs aborted, so that the total length from burr to 

 tip is about 500 mm. (nearly 20 inches) less than in well formed 

 antlers of the Rocky Mountain Elk. The brow, bez, trez, and 

 4th tine are similar to those of the ordinary Wapiti, but above 

 the 4th the antler is flattened and sub-palmate and ends in 2 or 3 

 short points the tips of which reach only slightly above the tip 

 of the 4th prong. 



Whether the aborted condition of the terminal part of the antler 

 in Roosevelt's Wapiti is the result of long residence in the dense 

 Pacific coast forests, where longer antlers would be inconvenient, 

 or is indicative of closer relationship with the stags of Europe 

 and Asia, which normally carry somewhat similar antlers, is an 

 interesting question. 



Among some black heads in a taxidermist shop in Victoria I 

 saw one, said to have been killed on Vancouver Island, in which 



