RANGIFER ALCES. :tT 



I'^om burr to tip along outer curve, 283-4 in. (730 mm.); girth above 



burr. 120; occiput to posterior end of nasals, 166: width across orbits, 



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55. groenlandicus. (Ci-rj'us), Gmel. S)st. Nat., 178S, i, p. 177. 



Ty/>e locality. Greenland. 



Gfogr. Distr. Greenland. 



(.',enl. Chiir. .\utlers long, slender, with but few points; white 

 ring around eye, and white line bordering the hoofs. 



Color. .Summer Pelage. General character clove brown; around 

 the eye a broadly defined white ring; and the hoofs are bordered by a 

 broad white band. 



.\feasiirements. Somewhat smaller than R. laribou. 



56 arcticus. (Cem/s), Rich. Faun. Bor. Amer. , 1829, p. 239. 



Type localily. Shores of Hudson Bay? 



Geog. Distr. Barren grounds of Arctic America, north of the 

 tree limit, to the shores and islands of the Arctic Ocean. 



Genl. Char. Size small; antlers of male long, slender with com- 

 paratively few points; brow and bez tines more or less palmated; back 

 tine usually absent. 



Color. Summer Pelage. General tint clove brown mi.xed with 

 dark reddish and yellowish browns; neck beneath and underparts 

 white. 



Winter Pelage. Entire coat soiled white. 



.Measurements. Similar in size to R. caribou. 



29. Alces. 



T. \~J;. C. „~^; P. ;^; M. ^^ = 34- 



Alces. If. Smith. Griff. Anim. King., v. 1827. p. 303. Type .-//<v.r 

 machlis, Linn. 

 Size, largest of all living deer; lateral metacarpals represented by 

 the lower extremities; antlers possessed onlj' by the male, placed low 

 on skull extending at first outwards and then backwards, expanding 

 into a broad palmation with numerous points; brow tine often pal- 

 mated and furnished with points. Muzzle large, broad and overhang- 

 ing, with a small triangular naked area between nostrils; head and 

 legs long; neck and body short; fore legs longest, tail very short; tar- 

 sal gland small; lateral hoofs large; main hoofs pointed. Nasal bones 

 short; nasal aperture large; gland pit and interorbital vacuity, moder- 

 ate. A mass of hair depends from lower part of throat called "the 

 bell." 



