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UNGDLATA 



general form heavy, the shoulders high ; upper lip conspicuously 

 produced in front ; muzzle hairy except for a very small median 

 bare spot ; throat of male with pendant flap of skin ; young not 

 spotted with white, their colour essentially like that of adults. 



Remarls. — The genus Alces contains four currently recognized 

 species or geographical forms, two in America and two in the 

 Old World. Only one occurs in Eurojje. 



ALCES ALCES Linnseus. 



1758. [Cervus] alces Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., i, 10th ed., p. 66. 



1829. ? Alces europ<-vus Burnett, Quart. Journ. Sci. Lit. Art, 1829, 353 



(nonien Jiudum). 

 1836. Alces machlis Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 135 (Renaming of 



alces). 



1842. Alces antiquorum Riippell, Museum Senckeubergianum, iii, p. 183 



(Renaming of alces). 



1843. Alces palmahis Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. 182 (Re- 



naming of alces). 

 1857. Alces palviatus Blasius, Stiugethiere Deutschlands, p. 434. 

 1860. Alces jubata Fitzinger, Wisseuch.-pop. Naturgesch. der Saugethiere, 



IV, p. 86 (Renaming of alces). 

 1898. Alces alces Lydekker, Deer of all Lands, p. 54. 

 1910. Alces alces Trouessart, Faune Mamm. d'Europe, p. 270. 



Geogra'pliical distribution. — Forested portions of northern and 

 central Europe ; now confined, in the region west of Russia, to the 

 wilder parts of the Scandinavian Peninsula and eastern Germany. 



Alces alces. 



Fig. 209. 

 Incisiforni teeth. 



Nat. size. 



Diagnosis. — General characters as in the genus Alces ; height 

 at shoulder about two meters ; general colour brown, lighter and 



