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The original habitat as laid down by Allen is as follows: 
Beginning with the region east of the Mississippi river, its 
extension northward was limited by the great lakes, while the 
Alleghanies may be taken as its general eastern limit. To the 
southward it seems never to have been met with much south of 
the Tennessee river. It is well known to have ranged over 
northern and western Arkansas, and thence southward over the 
greater part of Texas, and across the Rio Grande into Mexico. 
Westward it extended over northern New Mexico and thence 
westward and northward throughout the Great Salt Lake basin, 
and probably to the Sierra Nevada mountains in California and 
the Blue mountains in Oregon. 
North of the Uuited States its western boundary seems to 
have been formed by the main chain of the Rocky mountains, 
along the foot-hills of which it has been found as far north as 
the Mackenzie river. Its most northern limit seems to have 
been the northern shore of Great Slave lake. In the British 
possessions its range to the eastward did not extend beyond the 
plains west of the Hudson’s bay highlands. It was hence 
wholly absent from the region north of the Great Lakes. 
Famiry CERVIDZ. 
Alees americanus JARDINE. 
MOOSE DEER. 
PLATE V., 
This, the largest existing ruminant in North America is ex- 
ceedingly uncouth and ungainly, and more ox-like in many 
respects than any other member of the Cervide. The body is 
massive and compact and relatively short, being concentrated 
anteriorly. The legs are very long and stout, especially the 
forelegs. The hoofs are large and ox-like, and the ‘‘dew-claws” 
large and pendulous. The metatarsal gland is absent. Tarsal 
gland small and covered with retrorse hairs. The head is 
massive but narrow, and reminding somewhat of that of a horse, 
the nose, however, is enormous and hairy, except a space be- 
tween the nostrils. The ears are very large. The antlers, which 
complete the bizarre physiognomy of the male, are relatively but 
moderately large and spreading, forming, by the expansion of 
the beam and coalescence of the lines, a broadly-palmate shovel- 
