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phalanx longer, rough, and rounded at the end : there are 

 two strong sesamoids behind each division of the distal end 

 of the cannon-bone. In the Elk the upper end of the inner 

 supplemental metacarpal is not an inch in length ; but the 

 lower end of the metacarpal of each of the spurious hoofs is 

 two-thirds the length of the cannon-bone. In the hind 

 leg of fig. 182, f marks the femur or thigh-bone ; tf, the 

 tibia or leg-bone ; c, the calcaneum, heel-bone or hock ; 

 m tf, the metatarsus or hind cannon-bone ; d s, the spurious 

 hoofs. Both metacarpal and metatarsal cannon-bones are 

 much less deeply indented longitudinally in the Megaceros 

 than in the Rein-deer. 



Molyneux, who knew the Moose of North America 

 only by the vague and exaggerated notices of Jocelyn, 

 but who had seen the antlers of the Swedish Elk, accu- 

 rately points out the difference between them and those 

 of the Megaceros in their much smaller size, in the great- 

 est expansion of the palm being nearest the head, and 

 " the smaller branches not issuing forth from both edges 

 of the horns, as in ours, but growing along the upper (an- 

 terior) edge only."* To these differences must be added 

 the absence of the brow-antlers in the Elk, and the great 

 breadth and subdivision of the branch answering to the 

 bezantler, which, in the Elk (fig. 192), forms rather a 

 division of the palm. 



The antlers of the great Wapiti differ from those of the 

 Megaceros in having no palm, the cylindrical figure prevail- 

 ing throughout all the ramifications. The Rein-deer differs 

 in the superior length and ramification of the brow-antlers 

 (fig. 197), and in the greater length and different mode of 

 branching of the beam, which is smooth and subcompressed. 

 But the male Rein-deer is that existing species in which 



* Loc. cit. p. 503. 



