238 CATALOnUR OF UNOULATr.S 



3. 12. 28. 1. Head, mounted. Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. 

 Presented h/ D. Davics, Esq., 1903. 

 7. 1. IC). 1. Skin, mounted. Alaska. 



I'n'scntcd hj the Hon. Widter BothscJnld, 1907. 



Fig. 39. — Front View of Head of Alaskan Elk, or Moose 

 (Alces alecs gigos). 



XIV. Genus RANGIFER. 



Bangifer, H. Smith, Grifith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, p. 8, vol. v, 

 p. 304, 1827 ; Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 927 ; Biltimeyer, 

 Ahli. schweiz. pal. Ges. vol. vii, p. 51, 1881 ; Lydekkcr, Deer of 

 All Lands, p. 33, 1898 ; Grant, Itli Bej). N. Yorl- Zool. Soc. 

 p. 1, 1902; Pococl; Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 961 ; Miller, Cat. 

 Manim. West. Eiiro2>e, p. 979, 1912. 



Tarandus, Billhcrg, Synoj). Faunce Scandinav. vol. i, p. 22. 1827 ; 

 0^7/%, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 134. 



Procerus, M. de Serres, Cavernes el Ossements, eel. 3, p. 143, 1838. 



Procervus, Blainville, C. E. Ac. Sci. Paris, vol. xi, p. 392, 1840. 



Achlis, Eeichenbach, Siiugethiere, vol. iii, p. 12, 1845. 



The range includes the northern forests and tundra of 

 both eastern and western hemispheres, extending in the 

 former as far north as Spitsbergen and perhaps Novaya 

 Zemlya, and southwards to central Eussia. In America as 



