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MAMMALIA. 



The Alcine and Rangerine Deer are confined to the northern 

 part of both continents ; the Elaphine and Rusine Deer to the 

 Eastern World (the latter almost exclusive to the warmer part 

 of Asia). All the Capreoline Deer are peculiar to America. The 

 only exceptions to these rules are, the Wapity Deer of the Ela- 

 phine group is found in Northern America, and the Roebuck and 

 Ahu of the Capreoline group are found in Europe and North 

 Asia. 



I. The Deer of the Snowy Regions. Muzzle very broad, entirely 

 covered with hair. Fawns not spotted. Horns expanded and 

 palmated. Tail short. Skull : nose-cavity very large. In- 

 termaxillaries not reaching to the nasals. 



Deer of the Snowy Region, Gray, Ann. fy Mag. N. H. 1850; 



Gleanings Knowsl. Menag. 

 Cervus 1, Blainv. Bull. Soc. Phil. 1816, 74, note. 



1. Alcine Deer (Alcece}. Horns without any basal snag near the 

 crown. Muzzle with a small bald muffle between the nos- 

 trils. 



Alcine Deer, Gray, Ann. fy Mag. N. H. 1850 ; Knowsl. Menag. 



Anoglochis, sp., Bravard. 



Alcedze, J. Brookes, Mus. Cat. 61, 1828. 



1. ALCES. 

 Alee, H. Smith. 



Muzzle very broad, produced, and covered with hair, but there 

 is a small, moist, naked spot in front of the nostrils. Neck 

 short and thick. Hair thick and brittle. Throat rather maned 

 in both sexes. Hind-legs have the tuft of hair rather above the 

 middle of the metatarsus. Males have palmated horns, subcy- 

 lindrical at the base, expanded and palmated above, without any 

 basal snag. The nose-cavity in the skull is very large, reaching 

 behind to a line over the front of the grinders. The intermax- 

 illaries are very long, but do not reach to the nasal. The nasals 

 are very short. See Cuv. Oss. Foss. iv. t. 9. f. 49. 



They live in woods in the northern parts of both continents. 



Cervus 1. Alces, H. Smith in Griffith A. K. v. , 1827. 

 Alces, Gray, L. Med. Repos. 1821 ; List Mamm. B. M. ; Lesson, 



Mamm. i. 259; N. Tab. R. A. 269, 1842; Ogilby, P. Z. S. 



1836, 135; Sundevall, Pecora, 54. 

 Elans, Blainv. in Desm. Mamm. ii. 448, 1822. 

 Cervus, sp., Fischer, Syn. 441. 



