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XVI. CEEVUS CANADENSIS. 





Cervus elaphus canadensis, Erxleben, Syst. Regn. Anim. vol. i, p. 305, 

 1777 ; Kerr, Linn: a Anim. Kingdom, p. 299, 1792. 



Cervus canadensis, Schreber, Sdugthiere, vol. v, pi. ccxlvi, A, 1783 ; 

 F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mamm. vol. i, pis. 95 and 96, 1820; 

 Desmarest, Mammalogie, vol. ii, p. 433, 1822 ; Cuvier, Ossemens 

 Fossiles, ed. 2, p. 27, 1823 ; H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, 

 vol. iv, p. 96, 1827 ; Jardine, Naturalist's Libr., Mamm. vol. iii, 

 p. 156, pi. ix, 1835 ; Lesson, Nouv. Tabl. Regne Anim., Mamm. 

 p. 171, 1842; Gray, List Mamm. Brit. Mus. p. 177, 1843, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 226, List Osteol. Brit. Mus. p. 65, 1847, Cat. 

 Ungulata Brit. Mus. p. 193, 1852, Cat. Ruminants Brit. Mus. 

 p. 68, 1872, Hand-List Ruminants Brit. Mus. p. 257, 1873; 

 F. Cuvier, Hist. Nat. Mamm. vol. iv, pis. 345 and 346, 1848 ; 

 Pucheran, Arch. Mus. Paris, vol. vi, p. 386, 1852 ; Baird, N. 

 Amer. Mamm. p. 638, 1857 ; Gerrard, Cat. Bones Mamm. Brit. 

 Mus. p. 257, 1862; Sclater, Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. vii, p. 342, 

 1872 ; Caton, Antelope and Deer of N. America, p. 77, 1877, ed. 2, 

 p. 77, 1884 ; Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 913 ; Merriam, 

 Mammals of Adirondack, p. 143, 1884; True, Proc. U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. vol. vii, p. 592, 1855 ; Floiver and Garson, Cat. Osteol. Mus. 

 R. Coll. Surg. pt. ii, p. 208, 1884 ; Flower and Lydekker, Study 

 of Mammals, p. 322, 1891 ; Merrick, Mamm. Minnesota, p. 278, 

 1892; Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Philadelphia, 1897, p. 207; Nitsche, 

 Studien uber Hirsche, pi. vi, 1898 ; Lydekker, Deer of All Lands, 

 p. 94, pi. vi, 1898, Great and Small Game of Europe, etc. p. 51, 

 1901 ; Elliot, Synop. Mamm. N. America (Field Mus. Zool. 

 Pub. vol. ii), p. 34, 1901, Cat. Mamm. Field Mus. (ibid. vol. viii) 

 p. 43, 1907 ; Stone and Cram, American Mammals, p. 31, 1903 ; 

 Holding, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1904, vol. i, p. 131 ; Ward, Records of 

 Big Game, ed. 6, p. 39, 1910, ed. 7, 39, 1914 ; Miller, List N. 

 Amer. Mamm. p. 384, 1912 ; Cabrera, Cat. Met. Mam. Mus. 

 Madrid, p. 130, 1912. 



Cervus wapiti, Barton, Journ. Med. and Phys. Philadelphia, vol. iii, 

 p. 36, 1808 ; Leach, Journ. Phys. vol. Ixxxv, p. 67, 1818. 



Cervus major, Ord, Guihrie's Geography, p. 292, 1815. 



Cervus (Elaphus) canadensis, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, 

 vol. v, p. 308, 1827. 



Cervus strongyloceros, Richardson, Fauna Bor. -Amer., Mamm. vol. i, 

 p. 251, 1828 ; Gray, Knowsley Menagerie, pi. xxxvi, 1850. 



Elaphus canadensis, De Kay, Zool. New York, vol. i, p. 118, 1842. 



Cervus (Strongyloceros) canadensis, Gray, Cat. Ungulata Brit. Mus. 

 p. 193, 1852. 



Strongyloceros canadensis, Fitzinger, Sitzber. k. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 

 vol. Ixvii, pt. 1, p. 350, 1873, vol. Ixix, pt. i, p. 556, 1874. 



Cervus maral canadensis, Severtzow, Turkestan. Jevotnie, 1873, p. 103, 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xviii, p. 386, 1876. 



WAPITI : miscalled Elk in America. 



Typical locality Eastern Canada. 



Size very large, shoulder-height reaching 5 feet 4 inches. 

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