RUMIffANTIA CERVINAE CERVUS VIRGINIANUS. 



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species of Ameivx and other reptilia, known to be exclusively South American ; and it is more 

 than probable that the present is another of his errors. 



The elk is the most widely distributed of any American deer, reaching from the Atlantic to 

 the Pacific, and ranging through many degrees of latitude according to Richardson, as far 

 north as the 57th parallel. At the present day the only well ascertained eastern localities are 

 the Allegheny regions of Pennsylvania and Virginia ; the fact of its occurrence in New York 

 being very uncertain. It is not met with until we reach Minnesota, (or perhaps northern 

 Wisconsin) ; to the westward of this it becomes abundant, and appears most numerous on the 

 upper Missouri and Yellowstone. 



A very complete account of the habits of this species will be found in the article of Audubon 

 and Bachman. 



List of specimens. 



1 I give these measurements as being on the labels, but there is evidently an error of some kind in the excessive length. 



CERVUS VIRGINIANUS, Boddaert. 



Virginia Deer. 



Cervus virffinianus, BODDAERT, Elenchus Animalium, I, 1784, 136. 



ZIMMERHAKN, Pennant' 8 Arktiscke Zoologie, 1787, 31. 

 GMELEN, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 179. 

 KERR'S Linnaeus, 1792, 299. 



SCHREBER, Saugt. V, 1836. 1 (!) ; tab. ccxlvii, not of text. 

 SHAW, Gen. Zool. II, 1801, 284. 

 DESMABEST, Mammalogie, II, 1822, 442. 

 ?SAY, in Narr. Long's Exped. I. 1823, 103. (var.) 

 HARLAN, F. Am. 1825, 238. 

 GODMAN, Am. N. H. II, 306. 

 DOUGUTY'S Cab. N. H. I. 1830, 3 ; pi. i. <?, Q, o. 

 DEKAY, N. Y. Zool. I, 1842, 113 ; pi. xxviii. f. 1. 

 WAGNER, Suppl. Schreb. IV, 1844, 373. 



AUD. & BACH, N. Am. Quad. II, 1851, 220 ; pi. Ixxxi, cxxxvi. 

 PUCHERAN, Mon. du Cerf, Ann. du Mus. VI, 1852, 305. 

 Cervus (Mazama) virffinianus, HAM. SMITH, Griffith's Guv. IV, 1278, 127, V, 315. 



SUNDEVALL, K. Sv. Ak. Vet. Handl. for 1844. IB. Archiv Skand. Beit. U, 1850, 134. 

 1 See note p. 644 



