MAP 4-DISTRIBUTION OF WAPITI OR ELK IN 1500 AND IN 1900. 



The heavy outlines show the primitive range of each form. The shaded portion is the ranse in .000. 

 logical Sun'^v'' '^ '^^'^ °" ""^ records and reports of several hundred ancient and modern traveUere. with some help from the U. S. Bio- 



The outlyinp records are marked with a cross. 

 The four forms are : 



Cerous canadensis Erxl Cercu, nannoje, Merriam. 



i^ervus occidtnlalis H. Smith. Cervus merriami Nelson. Probably extinct. 



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