IV. 

 The Moose, or Flat-horned Elk. 



Alces americanus Jardine. 



(Gr. alces, an elk; L. americanus, American.) 



Alces americanus Jardine, 1835, Nat. Lib. XXI, p. 125. 

 Type Locality. — Eastern Canada. 



French Canadian, VOrignal. 

 Cree, Moose, moos-wa. 

 OjiB., Moose. 

 Chipewyan, Ten-nee\ 

 Yankton Sioux, Tahg-chah. 

 Ogallala Sioux, Tah. 



The genus Alces (Jardine, 1835) has all the characteristics 

 of the Family (the Cervidce) to which it belongs, but, further, 

 has broadly palmated antlers, found only on the male, pen- 

 dulous, muscular muzzle, with a small, naked triangular space 

 between the nostrils, short neck and tail, small tarsal and no 

 metatarsal glands; both sexes carry on the throat a bell or 

 dewlap covered with long hair. In size these are the largest of 

 living Deer, equalling or exceeding a horse in stature. 



^ , , 0-0 0-0 2-2 . 2-2 



leeth: Inc. ; can. ; prem.^^^-^; mol.^^^-^ =32 



4-4 0-0 ^-^ ^-^ 



COLOUR A fine bull Moose shot near Kippewa, Que., by Mrs. E. 



T. Seton, September 25, 1905, in prime condition, was black 

 on fore-legs, breast, shoulders, 'flanks, and hams, shading into 

 rusty brown on withers, back, neck, and head; palest on nose 

 and lips and shading into white on the belly; the insides of the 

 ears also are whitish, the legs from the knee to the ground are a 

 pale warm gray or Caribou colour. The appearance of the 



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