148 ' MR. H J. ELWES ON [ Feb. 3, 
to those of the so-called A. bedfordie have been received by him 
from Siberia. I stated that the only horns of the Elk which I 
succeeded in obtaining in the Altai Mountains in 1898, which 
are now in the St. Petersburg Museum, were palmated in pre- 
cisely the same manner as those of the Norwegian Elk, and others 
which I have seen in Russian collections had all well-developed 
palmation. Dr. Linnberg’s figures go to show that the develop- 
ment of the antlers in those parts of Sweden from which they 
come is nothing like so fine as in the districts of North and South 
Text-fig. 25. 
Tracing of a cast horn found at Solem in Bangdal by Capt. Ferrand. 
(About =; nat. size.) 
Trondhjem, where most of my hunting has been done. When I 
first began Elk-hunting in Tydal, a mountain valley in South 
Trondhjems-amt running up to the Swedish frontier, I should have 
considered the horns figured by Lénnberg in fig. 3 as a fair repre- 
sentation of an adult Elk in that district; but I have seen them with 
as many as eleven points on each horn, and believe that horns with 
even more points have been obtained. Further north, in North 
