EAST SIBERIAN ELK 



Antlers of East Siberian Elk. From the Hon. Walter Rothschild's specimen. 



C EAST SIBEBIAN ELK (Alces machlis bedfordiae). 



A race distinguished from the typical form of the Scandinavian 

 elk by the absence of palmation in the antlers, which usually have four 

 or five large tines on each side. Some antlers from East Siberia show 

 a slight tendency to palmation, but no specimens from that area have 

 hitherto been received showing the full palmation characteristic of so 

 many European, and apparently all American, antlers. This elk would 

 appear to be the ancestral form of the group. 



Greatest ^ngth to f< ^" e " T ; t 

 width. 1 ^f e est above Tip. 



Points. 



Locality. 



42i 



374 



7i 28 6 + 5 Siberia 



8 37 4 + 3 l>o. 



8 32 5 + 4 Do. 



Owner. 



Hon. Walter Rothschild. 



British Museum. 



Hon. Walter Rothschild. 



