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BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



A NEW MOOSE FROM ALASKA* 

 BY GERRIT S. MILLER, JR. 



The Moose of Alaska has long been known to be the largest of 

 American deer, but hitherto it has not been directly compared 

 with true Alces americanu*. During the summer of 1898 Mr. 

 Dall De Weese, of Canon City, Colorado, spent three months on 

 the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, in quest of large mammals for the 

 United States National Museum. Of the Moose, the special 

 object of his search, he secured four males and two females. 

 These specimens show that the Alaskan Moose differs consider 

 ably from the animal inhabiting the eastern United States and 

 eastern and central Canada. To the latter the specific names 

 am&'icanusfi lobatus^ and mimva have been applied. I can find 

 no name, however, based on the Alaskan animal, which may be 

 called : 



Alces gigas sp. nov. 



Type adult c? (skin and skull), No. 86166, United States National Mu 

 seum, collected on the north side of Tustumena Lake, Kenai Peninsula, 

 Alaska, in September, 1898, by Dall De Weese. Original number 16. 



General characters. A larger, more richly colored animal than the 

 eastern moose. Skull with occipital portion narrower, palate broader, 

 and mandible much heavier than in Alces americanus. 



* Published by permission of Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



f Alces americanus Jardine, Naturalists' Library, XXI (Mammalia 

 Deer, Antelopes, Camels, &c.), p. 125, 1835. Eastern North America. 



J Cervm lobatus Agassiz, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., II, p. 188, 184fi. 

 Eastern North America. 



\ Alee* mnxtm Richardson, Zool. Voyage of H. M. S. 'Herald,' Verte- 

 l)ials, p. 102, 1852. Central Canada. 



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