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hunter. Under the throat there was a wattle 

 pendant from it, and at least nine inches long — 

 being ah 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, tlie inside of which is 

 smooth, and the outside furnished with several 

 sharp snags. The horns have weighed 60 lbs. 

 Although tliis stuffed moose had no horns, yet I 

 have inspected t'*o sets of horns which had fallen 

 from others. 



This animal is called by Linnoeus cervus alces, 

 and he is confounded hy several writers with the 

 elk of America, called hy 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, 

 Tiie 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 3Tars ago for five hundred dollars. 

 This animal lives entirely by browsing. He trots 



