Southern (American) Elk. 53 



last-mentioned animal is called the Grey Moose, in 

 New-England*. Mr. Dale also is of opinion, that 

 the Grey Moose, mentioned by Mr. Dudley, is the 

 same as the Elk, or Cervus Wapitif . This point is 

 not completely ascertained. I cannot, therefore, at 

 present, assert, with full confidence, that the Grey 

 Moose is a native of Pennsylvania. 



NOTES ON THE PRECEDING PAPER. 



Note 1. Pages 36, 37. Mr. Pennant (Arctic Zo- 

 ology, vol. i. p. 19) says, " the Elk and the Moose are 

 the same species." My late amiable and ingenious 

 friend, Dr. Elihu H. Smith, has supposed this to be a 

 mistake. fSee Medical Repository, p. 169.) I appre- 

 hend, however, Mr. Pennant to be perfectly correct in 

 Ms observation, at least if it be admitted (and this is ge- 

 nerally admitted) that the moose of America is the same 

 animal as the Cervus Alces. Mr. Pennant, it is evident 

 to me, intended nothing more, by asserting the identity 

 of the Elk and moose, than the establishing of the fact, 

 that the moose is the Cervus Alces, or Elk of Europe 

 and Asia. Of the American Elk (my Cervus Wapiti) 

 he knew nothing when he published his Arctic- Zoology y 

 in 1792. Towards the close of that year, I transmitted 

 to my ingenious friend a number of manuscript notices 



• Natural History of Carolina, Sec, atrthe end of vol. ii. p. 28. 



t See Baddam's Memoirs of the Royal Society, &c. Vol. x. 

 p. 2f)0. 



