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Genus LASIURUS. 



(31) Lasiurus borealis. 

 (Red Bat.) 

 Common and generally distributed, particularly abundant near Lake 

 Erie. 



(*) (32) Lasiurus cinereus. 

 (Hoary Bat.) 

 This is our largest species and one that is seldom seen. Specimens 

 have been recorded from various parts of the Province, but it is rare 

 everywhere. Migrates southward for the winter. 



Order UNGULATA. (The Hoofed Mammals.) 



Herbivorous mammals provided with one to four enlarged and thick- 

 ened claws or hoofs on each foot ; molar teeth adapted for grinding. 



Family CERVID^. (The Deer.) 



Horns deciduous, solid, developed from the frontal bone, more or less 

 branched, co\ered at first by a soft hairy integument known as "velvet;" 

 when the horns attain their full size, which they do in a short time, there 

 arises at the base of each a ring of tubercles known as the "burr." This 

 compresses and finally obliterates the blood vessels supplying the velvet;" 

 which dries up and is rubbed off, leaving the bone hard and insensible. 

 The horns or antlers are shed annually, the separation of the "beam" 

 from its "pedicel" taking place just below the burr. Antlers are wanting 

 in the female, except in the Caribou, but they are present in the male of 

 all our species. Stomach in four divisions as with ordinary ruminants. 



Genus ODOCOILEUS. 



(33) Odocoileus americanus. 



(Red Deer, Virginia Deer.) 

 Common and generally distributed in all unsettled districts. Ranges 

 westward into eastern Manitoba. 



Genus CERVUS. 



(34) Cervus canadensis. 



(Wapiti, "Elk.") 

 It seems certain that at one time the Wapiti was found in western 

 Ontario, but it has become extinct. If it is ever found here now, it will 

 be near the Manitoba border. In the west this animal is commonly and 

 wrongly called the Elk, a name properly belonging to the next species. 



