I. 



The Wapiti, Canada Stag, American Red-deer or 

 Round-horned Elk. 



Cervus canadensis Erxleben. 

 (L. Cervus, a stag ; canadensis, of Canada.) 



Cervus elaphus canadensis Erxleben, 1777, Syst. Reg. An. I, 



p. 305- 

 Cervus canadensis ScHREBER, 1 783, Saugth. V, pi. 246 a. 

 Type Locality. — Eastern Canada, probably near Montreal. 



French Canadian, le C^r/(male); la Biche (female) 



le Wapiti. 

 Cree, Mus-koose. Richardson gives* also as Cree 



names : Wawaskeeshoo^ Awaskees, and Moostoosh. 

 OjiB. & Saut., Mush-koose. 

 Yankton Sioux, Eh-kahg-tchick-kah. 

 Ogallala Sioux, Hay-hah^-kah (male). 



The Deer Family, or Cervidce, are hoofed ruminant family 

 mammals, with solid antlers that are grown and shed period- acters 

 ically. They have 4 hoofs on each foot, the hinder pair 

 much smaller than the front; no gall-bladder; mammae, 4; 

 tear-pit below inner corner of eye, well developed. 



„ , ^ 0-0 i-i . SS 



leeth: Inc. ; can. ; or wantmg; prem. ; 



4-4 0-0 3-3 



mol. ^^-^ =32 to 34 

 3-3 



The genus Cervus (Linnaeus, 1758), of which the Euro- 

 pean Red-deer is the type, and to which the Wapiti belongs, is 



'F. B. A., 1829, I, p. 251. 



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