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above the Falls of St. Anthony. Every year this animal's rov- 

 ings are restricted. In 1822, the limit of its wanderings down 

 the St. Peter, was Great Swan Lake, near Camp Crescent." — 

 Godman's American Natural History. 



THE ELK, OR WAPITI. 



CERVUS CANADENSIS ; BRISS. 



Cerf du Canada ; Perrault, Mem. sur les Anim. ii. 45. Cervus 

 Major Americanus ; Catesby, Carol. App. ii. 28. Cervus 

 Strongyloceros ; Schreh Saeugthiere. Alces Americanus, Cor- 

 nibus Teretibus ; Jefferson's Virginia, 96. The Elk ; Law- 

 son, New Voyage; Carver, Travels, ill . The American Elk ; 

 Bewick, Quadrupeds, 112. Cervus Wapiti; Barton, Med. 

 and Physical Journ. iii. 36. Wapiti; Warden, Descr. des 

 Etats Unis, v. 368 ; Stag, Red Deer, ibid, 367, Wapiti ; 

 Mitchill, Leach, Fred. Cuvier, Mamif. Lithogr. liv. 21c. Cerf 

 Wapiti; Desm. Mamm. */?. 664; Cerf Canadien, ibid, sp. 665. 

 Wewaskisli, Waskesse, Wawaskeesho ; Hearne, Journey, Sfc. 

 360. Commonly called Stag, Red Deer, Gray Moose, Le Biche, 

 Wapiti, American Elk, Round-horn Elk, Elk, S^c. 



" The stately and beautiful animal we are now to describe, 

 has been, until very recently, confounded with other species of 

 Deer, to which it bears but a slight resemblance, and from 

 which it is distinguished by the most striking characters. The 

 Enghsh name by which it is commonly known, and which we 

 prefer to others, is the same as that given to the Moose in 

 Europe ; hence, this species was for a long time considered as a 

 mere variety of the Moose, if not identically the same. A gene- 

 ral resemblance to the European stag, caused the application of 

 the same name to our Elk, and this circumstance led various wri- 

 ters into the error of considering our animal to be a variety of 

 the Cervus Elaphus, or common Stag of Europe. 



