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Genus ALCES Gray (moose) 

 1755. Alee Frisch, Das Natur-System der vierfiissigen Thiere, . . . , p. 3. 

 (Type, "das Elend Thiere," or Cervus alces Linnaeus. See Palmer, North 

 Amer. Fauna No. 23, p. 88, Jan. 23, 1904. Names applied to genera re- 

 jected, since Frisch is not consistently binomial. See Sherborn, Index ani- 

 malium; . . . , p. xxv, 1902; Thomas and Miller, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 ser. 7, vol. 16, pp. 461-464, October 1905; Hershkovitz, Journ. Mamm., 

 vol. 29, No. 3, p. 272, Aug. 31, 1948; and Bull. Zool. Nomenclature, vol. 

 4, pts. 19-21, p. 549, June 9, 1950.) 



1821. Alces Gray, London Med. Repos., vol. 15, p. 307, Apr. 1, 1821. (Type, 

 Cervus alces Linnaeus.) 



1902. Paralces J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 16, p. 160, July 1, 

 1902. (Substitute name proposed on assumption that Alces Gray is a hom- 

 onym of Alee Blumenbach, Handbuch der Naturgeschichte, ed. 6, p. 697, 

 1799.) 



Alces alces americana (Clinton)* 



1822. Cervus americanus [Clinton], Letters on the Natural History and In- 

 ternal Resources of the State of New York, p. 193. 



1835. Alces americanus Jardine, in The naturalist's library (Edit. Jardine), 



vol. 11 (Mammalia, vol. 3, Deer, etc.) , p. 125. 

 1884. Alces machlis True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 29) , p. 



592, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 1891. Alee americanus Merriam, North Amer. Fauna No. 5, p. 79, July 30, 



1891. 

 1907. Alces columbae Lydekker, The Field, London, vol. 109, p. 182, Feb. 

 2, 1907. (Somewhere in British Columbia; entered as Ontario (not 

 British Columbia) in Zoological Record, 1907, vol. 44, Mamm., p. 69. 

 Regarded as indeterminable by Peterson, Occ. Pap. Roy. Ontario Mus. Zool. 

 No. 9, p. 6, May 25, 1950.) 

 1952. Alces alces americana Peterson. Contrib. Roy. Ontario Mus. Zool., No. 



34, p. 28, Oct. 15, 1952. 

 Type Locality. — "Country north of Whitestown" [probably in the western 

 Adirondack region], N. Y. Range. — Wooded portion of eastern Canada, except 

 Prince Edward Island, from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick westward through 

 Quebec to eastern Ontario (see Peterson, op. cit., p. 2) ; southward formerly 

 through Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, northwestern Massachusetts (Crane, 

 Journ. Mamm., vol. 12, No. 3, p. 272, Aug. 24, 1931), and New York (Merriam, 

 The mammals of the Adirondack region, northeastern New York, . . ., pp. 138- 

 143, Oct. 11, 1884). 



Alces alces andersoni Peterson* 



1950. Alces americana andersoni Peterson, Occ. Pap. Rov. Ontario Mus. Zool., 



No. 9, p. 1, May 25, 1950. 

 1952. Alces alces andersoni Peterson, Contrib. Roy. Ontario Mus. Zool., No. 



34, p. 24, Oct. 15, 1952. 

 Type Locality. — Fifteen miles east of Brandon, section 27, township 10, range 

 16, Sprucewood Forest Reserve, Manitoba, Canada. Range. — Northern Michi- 

 gan and Minnesota, western Ontario, westward to central British Columbia, north 



