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APPENDIX. 



[No. V. 



by M. Cuvier as a specific name. It has occasionally been called Cervus Major, which 

 appellation it received from Catesby. This deer is called Le Biche by the Canadian 

 voyagers, it is the We-was-keesh of Hearne, and the Wa-was-keeshoo of the Cree 

 Indians. It is also sometimes called by the Americans, the Elk, and is the American 

 Elk of some, and the Round-horned Elk of others, of their writers. Fourth, the 

 Wapiti Deer, (Cervus Wapiti,) come from the Rocky Mountains, and the vallevs ad- 



from 



Multnomah 



fork of the Columbia River. The Wapiti have within these few years 1 



known in England, having been imported at different times for exhibition. Some of 



_ * « M 



those first introduced have been domesticated, they have succeeded well in the 



of the proprietor, and increased in number, breeding readily. It has been 



paddock of the propri 

 supposed that the Red 



Wapit 



identical, but this opinion certainly requires confirmation. The appellation of 

 Wapiti is derived from a tribe of Indians, who inhabit the western side of the 

 Rocky Mountains, but were erroneously supposed to be settled on the Missouri. All 

 the other names given to the Wapiti Deer, have led to much confusion respecting 

 them. Bewick, who figured one at a very early period, called it the American Elk, 



committed bv M 



Mr. Ord (and, after him, M. Desmerest) called the animal Cervus Major 

 been before applied by Catesby, to what has been above noticed as Cervu 

 sis. Fifth, a deer hitherto imperfectly known, has been recently distir 

 the account of Major Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains ; it is the I 

 Deer of Lewis and Clarke, and has been called Cervus Macrotis bv Mr. Sa 



hed 



panied Major Long 



Sixth, a Deer with a large tail, and which is 



known, in its native country, as the Black -tailed Deer, (Cervus Macrourus,)! 

 spoken of as inhabiting the countries watered by the Missouri. It is peculia 

 the size and contrasted colours of its tail, which it shews conspicuously in r 

 Seventh, the Cervus Virginianus is well known as the Fallow Deer of North A 

 but does not extend itself so far as the Arctic Ciivte : 



M. Cuvier refers to it the 



Mazame of the Mexican*, and the Cariacou of Daubenton. E 

 Roe of Buffon has been referred to the Cervus Mexkanus of Lir 



conjectured 



Squinaton of Dobbs ; the 



Canadian Voyagers is probably the same animal. Dr. Richardson states that in the 

 neighbourhood of Carlton- House, two deer are frequent, which differ much from each 

 other io appearance, that they are indiscriminately called Apeesce-Mongsoos, or, Little 

 Moose ; but are occasionally distinguished, as,— 1st., The Athee-Neettoo Apeesce- 

 Mongsoos, or, Real Little Moose ; and,— 2d, Kinwaithoos or Kinwaithoo-wayo Apeesce- 

 Mongsoos, or Long-tailed Little Moose. 



