236 FAL/NA AMERICAN^. 



Species. 



3. Cervus canadensis, Briss. Cervus elaphus, 

 Var. Canadensis, Linn. Gmel. Cerf du Canada, 

 Perrault, Mem. sur les Anim. torn. 2. pi. 45. Cerf 

 du Canada, Stag, Red Deer, Warden, Descrip. des 

 Etats Unis, vol. v. p. 537. Cervus strongyloceroSy 

 Schreb. Tab. Stag of America, Catesby, Carol, 

 app. p. 28. Cervus major, Ord. Wapiti, Barton, 

 Mitchell, Leacli, Warden, vol. v. p. 638. Elan 

 american, Berwick, Hist, des Quad. Le ivapiti, 

 F. Cuvier, Mamm. Lithog. 21st livraison. Elk 

 of the Americans, Lewis and Clark's Exped. up 

 the Missouri, vol. ii. p. 1G7. (Encycl. pi. 38. fig. 2.) 



Desmarest, in his Mammalogie, p. 443. has 

 made distinct species of the Cervus major, or 

 Wapiti, and the Cervus canadensis, Briss. though 

 he has admitted the latter with doubt, on the au- 

 thority of Warden and others, who have named 

 animals without accurately describing them. 



Some authors have also confounded the Cervus 

 canadensis, with the Red deer, (C. elaphus, of 

 Europe,) but the European species is smaller and 

 entirely distinct. 



By American naturalists, it is well known that 

 the C. major, and C. canadensis, are one and the 

 same species. 



Char. Essent. Branches of the horns cylin- 

 drical, very large, with flattened expansions; 

 having the first antler inclined in the direction of 



