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THE WAPITI; 



Cervus Canadensis. BRISSON. 

 PLATE IX. 



Wapiti, Barton. Fred. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. des Mammif. 

 Landseer's Charact. Sketches Cervus Canadensis, Bris. 

 Cerv. Wapiti. Cervus major, Desmarest, Mammalogie^ 

 432. Griffith's Cuv. Subgenus Elaphas* Cervus strong}', 

 loceros, (Schreiber) Richardson, Fauna Boreal. Amer. 

 i. 251. 



THE true Wapiti inhabits the savannahs in the in- 

 terior of the more northern parts of North America. 

 " The animal does not extend its range farther to 

 the north than the fifty-sixth or fifty-seventh parallel 

 of latitude ; nor is it found to the eastward of a line 

 drawn from the south end of Lake Winnipeg to the 

 Saskatchewan, in the 103d degree of longitude, and 

 from thence till it strikes the Elk River in the lllth 

 degree. They are pretty numerous amongst the 

 clumps of wood that skirt the plains of the Saskat- 

 chewan, where they live in small families of six o 1 * 

 seven individuals."* 



* Richardson's Fauna Bor, Amer. 251. 



