Zoological Society. 417 



sembled, the horns from Newfoundland (Nova Scotia) in the British 

 Museum Collection. 



Pallas observes, " Americee forte continua gregatim verno tempore 

 per glacies admigrant, paulo diversi a Siberia} inquilinis et verosimil- 

 lime Americani." — Zuol. Ross. Asiat. i. 208. 



B. The Deer of the "Warm or Temperate Regions have a 

 tapering nose, ending in a naked, moist muffle ; they generally have 

 a well-developed tail, distinct crumen, and rather long false hoofs ; 

 their fawns are spotted, the spots generally disappearing in the adult, 

 or only to be seen when the animals are in high condition ; the fur is 

 shorter and fulvous in the summer, becoming longer and greyer in 

 the winter ; the skulls have a moderate nose-cavity, and the inter- 

 maxillaries reaching to or nearly to the nasal bones. 



c. The Elaphine Deer or Stags have a low, broad muffle, 

 narrowed and rounded below, and nearly separated from the edge of 

 the lip by a hairy band, which has only a narrow interruption in the 

 middle, and rather elongated ears ; they have rough horns, generally 

 supported on a more or less long process of the frontal bones, fur- 

 nished with a frontal basal branch or snag close on the burr or crown ; 

 the outer side of the hind-legs has a tuft of hair placed rather above 

 the middle of the metatarsus, and another tuft on the inner side of 

 the hock. 



They are (except the Wapiti) exclusively confined to the woods of 

 the Old or Eastern "World. 



3. Cervus; Elaphus, II. Smith ; Cervus and Pseudocervus, 

 Hodgson. 



Horns round, erect, with an anterior basal snag, a medial anterior 

 snag, and the apex divided into one or more branches, according to 

 the age of the animal ; a well-developed crumen ; narrow triangular, 

 compressed hoofs ; they are covered with brittle, opake hairs ; the 

 rump is generally ornamented with a pale mark ; skull with a large, 

 deep, suborbital pit. 



* The True Stags have one or two branches on the middle of the 

 front of the beam. 



-f- The American hind have rather broad semicircular hoofs, a very 

 short tail, and the withers covered with softer hair in winter. Stron- 

 gyloceros. 



1. Cervus Canadensis. The Wapiti. 



Red-brown ; rump with a very large pale disk extending far above 

 the base of the tail, and with a black streak on each side of it; male 

 with hair of throat elongated, black, with reddish tips. 



Staff, Dale, Phil. Trans, n. 4-14, 384.— Cerfde Canada, Perr. Anim. 

 ii. 55. t. 46?; Cuvier, K. A. i. 256. — Cervus Canadensis, Brisson ; 

 Gray, Knows. Monag. 58. — Cervus Elaphus, var. Canadensis, Erxl. — 

 Cervus Sfrougi/loreros, Schrob. t. 24 7 ; Richardson, Fauna Bor. Amer. 

 251. — C. major. Ord. — ('. Wapiti, Leach, Journ. Phys. lxxxv. 66. — 

 American Elk, Bewick, Quad. — North-WesferM Stag' C. occidentaHs. 



