MEGACEROS HIBERNICUS. 453 
phalanx longer, rough, and rounded at the end: there are 
two strong sesamoids behind each division of the distal end 
of the cannon-bone. In the Elk the upper end of the inner 
supplemental metacarpal is not an inch in length ; but the 
lower end of the metacarpal of each of the spurious hoofs is 
two-thirds the length of the cannon-bone. In the hind 
leg of fig. 182, f marks the femur or thigh-bone; ¢, the 
tibia or leg-bone; c, the caleaneum, heel-bone or hock ; 
m t, the metatarsus or hind cannon-bone ; ds, the spurious 
hoofs. Both metacarpal and metatarsal cannon-bones are 
much less deeply indented longitudinally in the Megaceros 
than in the Rein-deer. 
Molyneux, who knew the Moose of North America 
only by the vague and exaggerated notices of Jocelyn, 
but who had seen the antlers of the Swedish Elk, accu- 
rately points out the difference between them and those 
of the Megaceros in their much smaller size, in the great- 
est expansion of the palm being nearest the head, and 
‘the smaller branches not issuing forth from both edges 
of the horns, as in owrs, but growing along the upper (an- 
terior) edge only.”* To these differences must be added 
the absence of the brow-antlers in the Elk, and the great 
breadth and subdivision of the branch answering to the 
bezantler, which, in the Elk (fig. 192), forms rather a 
division of the palm. 
The antlers of the great Wapiti differ from those of the 
Megaceros in having no palm, the cylindrical figure prevail- 
ing throughout all the ramifications. ‘The Rein-deer differs 
in the superior length and ramification of the brow-antlers 
(fig. 197), and in the greater length and different mode of 
branching of the beam, which is smooth and subcompressed. 
But the male Rein-deer is that existing species in which 
* Loe. cit. p. 503. 
