316 THE ELK AND 



out encroaching on that of the other, we find it 

 convenient to treat of them under one article. 

 Moil ancient, as well as modern authors, have 



confounded 



was a hoary black, but more gray above the face than any 

 where elfe. This animal was living laft fpring at the Mar- 

 quis of Rockingham's houfe, at Parfon's-green ; Pennant's 

 SynopJ. 0/ quad. p. 40. 



In the Ceitic language, Elch ; in modern Latin, Alee; in 

 Greek, AAkji ; in German, Hellend or Ellertd ; in Folifh Lofs ; 

 in Swedifh, Oelg ; in Rufs, Lozzi ; in Norwegian, JElg ; in 

 Chinele, Han-ta-han ; in Canada, Urinal; in French, Elan. 



Alee, machlis ; Plin.lib. 8. c. 15. Gejner, quad. p. I. Mun- 

 Jter, Cofmog. p. 883. 



Cervus paimatus, Alee vera et ligitima ; Klein quad- p. 24. 



Cervns cornibus ab imo ad fummum palmatis ; BriJJon. 

 quad. p. 6. Faunul. Sinenf. 



Cervus alces, cornibus acaulibus palmatis, caruncula gut- 

 turali ; Linn. Syft. Nat. p. 92. 



Elk ; Raii Syn. quad. p. 86. Scheffer. Lapl. p. 133. Bell's 

 trav. vol. 1. p. 5. 215- 322. 



** The rain-deer has large but (lender horns, bending 

 forward, the top palmated, brow antlers broad and palma- 

 ted. Both fexes have horns ; thofe of the female are lefs, and 

 with fewer branches. A pair from Greenland were three feet 

 nine inches long, two feet and a half from tip to tip, and weighed 

 nine pounds twelve ounces. The height of a full grown rain 

 is four feet fix inches. The fpace round the eye is always 

 black. When it firft fheds its coat, the hairs are of a brownilh 

 z.fo colour, and afterwards change to white. The hairs are 

 very clofc fet together, and, along the fore part of the neck, 

 they are very long and pendent. The hoofs are large, and 

 the tail fhort ; Pennant's Jynopj. of quad, p 46. 



The rain- deer was unknown to the Greeks. In French, 

 Rangier, Ranglier, Ic Renne\ in Latin, Tarandus ; in Norwegian, 

 Rehen ; in Lapland, Boelfoi ; in German, Reenthiet ; in Swc- 

 diih, Rhen ; in Canada, Caribou ; in modern Latin, Rangifer. 



, In partibus magnae LappoMae beftia eil de genere cer- 



. rurn . Rangifer duplici ratione difta ; una quod in ca- 

 pita 



