!32 THE ELK, OR MOOSE. 



to be used in the time of war, to be employed as 

 flying artillery, to reconnoitre, and carry dispatches. 

 This is the only animal which will rank in sub- 

 genus Alces, though, to another animal, known only 

 by the horns, the name of coronatus has been ap- 

 plied by Cuvier. They are in the Paris Museum, 

 bear sixteen snags, but are scarcely a foot in length : 

 they stand about three inches asunder, and more on 

 the forehead than in the common Elk; and Mi- 

 Smith thinks they must have been borne by an ani- 

 mal not larger than the fallow-deer, and states his 

 opinion that it may prove to be the Kistuke or little 

 Elk of the Rocky Mountain Indians. The next 

 form is now known by the subgeneric title of Ran- 



