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XVI. CERVUS CANADENSIS. 



Cervus elaphus canadensis, Erxlehen, Syst. Begn. Anim. vol. i, p. 305, 

 1777 ; Kerr, Linn.'s Anim. Kingdom, p. 299, 1792. 



Cervus canadensis, Schreber, Sdugthiere, vol. v, pi. ccxlvi, A, 1783 ; 

 F. Cuvicr, Hist. Nat. Mamm. vol. i, pis. 95 and 96, 1820 ; 

 Desmarest, Mammalogie, vol. ii, p. 433, 1822 ; Cuvier, Ossemens 

 Fossilcs, ed. 2, p. 27, 1823 ; H. Smith, Griffith's Aniinal Kingdom, 

 vol. iv, p. 96, 1827 ; Jardine, Naturalisfs Lihr., Mamm. vol. iii, 

 p. 156, pi. ix, 1835; Lesso)i, Nouv. Tahl. Regne Anim., Mamm. 

 p. 171, 1842; Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mas. p. 177, 1843, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 226, List Osteol. Brit. Mas. p. 65, 1847, Cat. 

 Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 193, 1852, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. 

 p. 68, 1872, Hand-List Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 257, 1873; 

 F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mamm. vol. iv, pis. 345 and 346, 1848 ; 

 Pucheran, Arch. Mus. Paris, vol. vi, p. 386, 1852 ; Baird, N. 

 Amer. Mamm. p. 638, 1857 ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. 

 Mus. p. 257, 1862 ; Sclater, Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. vii, p. 342, 

 1872 ; Caton, Antelojpe and Deer of N. America, p. 77, 1877, ed. 2, 

 p. 77, 1884; Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 913; Merriam, 

 Mammals of Adirondacls, p. 143, 1884; True, Proc. U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. vol. vii, p. 592, 1855 ; Flower and Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mus. 

 R. Coll. Surg. pfc. ii, p. 208, 1884; Flower and LydeliJcer, Study 

 of Mammals, p. 322, 1891 ; MerricTi, Mamm. Minnesota, p. 278, 

 1892; Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Philadelphia, 1897, p. 207; Nitsche, 

 Studien ilber Hirsche, pi. vi, 1898 ; Lydvhher, Deer of All Lands, 

 p. 94, pi. vi, 1898, Great and Small Game of Europe, etc. p. 51, 

 1901 ; Elliot, Synop. Mamm. N. America {Field Mus. Zool. 

 Pub. vol. ii), p. 34, 1901, Cat. Mamm. Field Mus. {ibid. vol. viii) 

 p. 43, 1907; Stone and Cram, American Mammals, p. 31, 1903; 

 Holding, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904, vol. i, p. 131 ; Ward, Records of 

 Big Game, ed. 6, p. 39, 1910, ed, 7, 39, 1914 ; Miller, List N. 

 Amer. Mamm. p. 384, 1912 ; Cabrera, Cat. Met. Mam. Mus. 

 Madrid, p. 130, 1912. 



Cervus wapiti, Barton, Journ. Med. and Phys. Philadelphia, vol. iii, 

 p. 36, 1808 ; Leach, Journ. Phys. vol. Ixxxv, p. 67, 1818. 



Cervus major, Ord, Guthrie's Geography, p. 292, 1815. 



Cervus (Elaphus) canadensis, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, 

 vol. V, p. 308, 1827. 



Cervus strongyloceros,i?tc7(aiY7son, Fauna Bor. -Amer., Mamm. vol. i, 

 p. 251, 1828 ; Gray, Knowsley Menagerie, pi. xxxvi, 1850. 



Elaphus canadensis, De Kay, Zool. New Yorh, vol. i, p. 118, 1842. 



Cervus (Strongyloceros) canadensis, Gray, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. 

 p. 193, 1852. 



Strongyloceros canadensis, Fltzinger, Sitzber. h. ATi. Wiss. Wien, 

 vol. Ixvii, pt. 1, p. 350, 1873, vol. Ixix, pt. i, p. 556, 1874. 



Cerv'us maral canadensis, Severtzow, Turkestan. Jevotnie, 1873, p. 103, 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xviii, p. 386, 1876. 



Wapiti : miscalled Elk in America. 



Typical locality Eastern Canada. 



Size very large, shoulder-height reaching 5 feet 4 inches, 



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