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hunter. Under the throat tiiere was a wattit 

 pendant from it, and at least nine inches long — 

 being an excrescence covered with long, coarse, 

 black hair. Upper lip broad, and hanging over 

 the lower — ears long and standing — nose broad 

 — nostrils large — neck shorter than the head — 

 along the tip a short thick mane — body brownish 

 — hoofs large — horns with short beams spreading 

 into large broad palms, the inside of which is 

 smooth, and the outside furnished with several 

 sharp snags. The horns have weigh^'d 60 lbs. 

 Although this stuffed moose had no horns, yet I 

 have inspected two sets of horns which had fallen 

 from others. 



This animal is called by Linnaeus cervus alecs, 

 and he is confounded by several writers with the 

 elk of America, called by Dr. Barton cervus wa- 

 pite. These animals are specifically distinct 

 from the elk and stag of Europe. The American 

 moose has been styled by some naturalists the 

 black moose ; and the American elk, the grey 

 moose, to discriminate them from each other. 

 The moose is confined in his range to the cold 

 regions of the north, while the elk has been seen 

 from Canada to Mexico. 



I am told that two young moose were sold at 

 Utica some years ago for five hundred dollars. 

 This animal lives entirely by browsing. He trots 



