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3. 12. 28. 1. Head, mounted. Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. 

 Presented by D. Davics, Esq., 1903. 

 7. ]. 16. 1. Skin, mounted. Alaska. 



Presented by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, 1907. 



FIG. 39. FRONT VIEW OF HEAD OF ALASKAN ELK, OR MOOSE 

 (Alces alecs gigcts). 



XIV. Genus RANGIFER. 



Rangifer, H. Smith, Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. iv, p. 8, vol. v, 

 p. 304, 1827 ; Brooke, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 927 ; Riitimeyer, 

 Abh. schweiz. pal. Ges. vol. vii, p. 51, 1881 ; LydeJcker, Deer of 

 All Lands, p. 33, 1898; Grant, 7th Hep. N. York Zool. Soc. 

 p. 1, 1902 ; Pococlc, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1910, p. 961 ; Miller, Cat. 

 Mamm. West. Europe, p. 979, 1912. 



Tarandus, Billberg, Synop. Faunae Scandinav. vol. i, p. 22, 1827 ; 

 Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 18B6, p. 134. 



Procerus, M. de Serres, Cavernes a Ossements, ed. 3, p. 143, 1838. 



Procervus, Blainville, C. R. Ac. Sci. Paris, vol. xi, p. 392, 1840. 



Achlis, Reichenbach, Saugethierc, vol. iii, p. 12, 1845. 



The range includes the northern forests and tundra of 

 both eastern and western hemispheres, extending in the 

 former as far north as Spitsbergen and perhaps Novaya 

 Zemlya, and southwards to central Eussia. In America as 



