A Nctr J/OO.SV 



Color. General color a grizzle of black and wood brown darkening 

 along spine and changing abruptly to clear black on chest, buttocks, and 

 lower part of sides. Median line of belly hairbrown. Legs hair-brown 

 or broccoli-brown with darker shading. Head like back, but more finely 

 grizzled. Ears yellowish white internally, broccoli-brown externally. 



Skull and teeth. The skull of Alces gigas differs from that of A. ameri- 

 c<iinix iii iis larger size and greater massiveness, as well as in certain de 

 tails of form. Chief among the latter is the great breadth of the palate, 

 relatively to the length of the toothrow. In three males of A. gigas the 

 ratio of least palatal breadth (between anterior premolars) to length of 

 toothrow is respectively 47.1, 47.1, and 44.7. In three males of A. amrri- 

 canus it is only 36, 36, and 39. In this respect A Ices gigas resembles Alces 

 alces, though the Alaskan animal shows no approach to the conspicuous 

 deepening of the antorbital portion of the skull, or the peculiar form of 

 the premaxillary characteristic of the European species. The occiput is 

 relatively higher and narrower than in A. aniericanus. In two males of 

 the latter the ratio of depth between inion and lower lip of foramen mag 

 num to greatest width across paroccipital processes is 68.5 and 72.2, while 

 in three of A. gigas it is 31.8, 84.8, and 87.5. 



Measurements. Of the following tables of measurements the first is based 

 on data furnished by Mr. De Weese. The skull of Alces americmms, meas 

 urements of which are given in the second, is that of a very large indi 

 vidual from Maine, considerably older than any of the specimens of 

 A. gigas. 



External Measurements of A Ices gigas. 



