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UXGDLATA 



general form heavy, the shoulders high ; upper lip conspicuously 

 produced in front ; muzzle hairy except for a very small median 

 bare spot ; throat of male with pendant flap of skin ; young not 

 spotted with white, their colour essentially like that of adults. 



RemarJcs. — The genus Alces contains four currently recognized 

 species or geographical foi'ms, two in America and two in the 

 Old World. Only one occurs in Europe. 



ALCES ALCES Linnaeus. 



1758. [Cervus] alces Linnseus, Syst. Nat., i, lOth ed., p. 66. 



1829. ? Alces eurcypxits Burnett, Quart. Journ. Sci. Lit. Art, 1829, 353 



(nomen nudum). 

 1836. Alces machlis Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 135 (Renaming of 



alces). 



1842. Alces antiqucn-um Riippell, Museum Senckenbergianum, iii, p. 183 



(Renaming of alces). 



1843. Alces pahnatus Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. jMus., p. 182 (Re- 



naming of alces). 

 1857. Alces pahnatus Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 434. 

 1860. Alces jubata Fitzinger, Wissench.-pop. Naturgesch. der Saugethiere, 



IV, p. 86 (Renaming of alces). 

 1898. Alces alces Lydekker, Deer of all Lands, p. 54. 

 1910. Alces alces Trouessart, Faune Mamm. d'Europe, p. 270. 



Geographical distribution. — Forested portions of northern and 

 central Europe ; now confined, in the region west of Russia, to the 

 wilder parts of the Scandinavian Peninsula and eastern Germany. 



Fig. 20 

 Alces alces. Incisiform teeth. Nat. size. 



Diagnosis. — General characters as in the genus Alces ; height 

 at shoulder about two meters ; general colour brown, lighter and 



