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time they produce only one young, afterwards 

 two, rarely three. The old moose loose their 

 horns in January and February, and the young in 

 April and May. The first have their new horns 

 by the end of June, and the others in the month 

 of August. Duration of life, fifteen or twenty years. 



Country. The Moose Deer, called Elk, Elg, 

 (Elg, Los, Loos, &c. by the northern inhabitants 

 of the ancient continent, ranges in Europe from 

 the fifty-third to the sixty-third degree of latitude, 

 through part of Prussia, Poland, Sweden, Finland. 

 Russia, and particularly in Livonia, and in Jugrie. 

 In Asia it descends lower, from the forty-fifth to 

 the fifty-first degree of latitude, particularly in 

 Tartary. 



In America, where it is named Monsoll by the 

 Algonquins, Moose or Moose deer, by the English, 

 and Original., by the French, it is met with in the 

 more northern parts of the United States, and be- 

 yond the Great Lakes. 



Species. 



2. Cervus tarandus, Linn. Erxleb. Bodd. Ta- 

 randus, Plin. Aldr. Tapaj^^bg, iElian. Rangifer, 

 Gesn. Aldr. Cervus mirabilis, Cervus palmatus, 

 Johns. Reinthier, Gesn. Caribou, Charlev. nouv. 

 torn. 3. p. 192. Cervus groenlandicus, Briss. Regn. 

 Anim. p. 88. No. 4. Kariboii, Ejusd. p. 91. No. 8. 

 Renne, Buff. Hist. Nat. torn. 12. pi. 10, 11, and 12. 

 suppl. torn. 3. pi. 18. Bis. Jeune Renne, Fred. 



