CERVID/E 237 



A provisional race, characterised by the muffle being 

 T-shaped (fig. ?>8), in place of triangular (fig. 37). 

 No specimen in collection. 



Fig. 3S. — Mvzzi.b op Ontario Elk (Alces alces colwnbiv), 



sshowing T-shaped muffle. 



From the type specimen, in the coUeotiou of Capt. E. C. IlamiUon. 



E.— Alces alces grig-as. 



Alces gigas, Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washinqton, vol. xiii, p. 57, 1899, 



List N. Amcr. Mamm. p. 391, 1912. 

 Alces machlis gigas, LydeJchcr, Great and Small Game of Europe, etc, 



p. 49, 1901 ; Ward, Eecords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 97, 1910, 



ed. 7, p. 97, 1914. 

 Paralces gigas, Allen, Bull. Amer. Mits. Nat. Hist. vol. xvi, p. 160, 1902. 



Typical locality Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. 



Type in U.S. National Museum, "Washington. 



Larger and more richly coloured than A. a. amerieanus, 

 M'ith the occipital region of the skull narrower, the palate 

 wider, and tlie lower ja^^' stouter. General colour grizzled 

 l)lack and wood-brown, darker on spine, clear black on chest, 

 flanks, and buttocks, and hair-brown on middle line of 

 under surface ; head more finely grizzled than back ; ears 

 broccoli-] )rown externally, yellowish white internally; limbs 

 hair-brown or liroccoli-brown, with darker shading. 



