96 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



Kirkdale, so renowned for the bones of the Hyena. We 

 possess a drawing, furnished by the Rev. Richard Hennah, 

 of a frontal and pair of antlers, dug out at a very great depth 

 in the Porthstream tin-work, parish of St. Austle, Corn- 

 wall : the same reverend gentleman has likewise favoured 

 us with the loan of another horn, twenty-two inches long, 

 with the posterior snag of the crown broken, found in the 

 same stream, lying on the tin ground, at the depth of about 

 seventy feet. This specimen lay among large fragments of 

 rolled rock, trunks of trees, leaves, and hazle nuts. Horns 

 of the Stag have also been discovered in the same peat- 

 mosses of Ireland which contain the remains of the Fossil 

 Elk. In the Museum of Mr. Brooks there is a magnificent 

 pair from Ireland ; they measure three feet from burr to 

 tip in a straight line ; they have bifurcations at the summit, 

 which we see also, though on a smaller scale, in those of 

 Cornwall, resembling, in that respect, these horns of a 

 dubious species of North America, which we shall notice 

 next to the Wapiti. 



The Wapiti. (C. Strongyloceros.) The Canadian Stag. (C. 

 Canadensis.) America has also its genuine Stags, but we feel 

 constrained to place the above names together until a precise 

 character can be assigned to separate them. Baron Cuvier, 

 Ossemens Fossiles, vol. iv., considers the question as decided, 

 in consequence of his numerous and persevering researches, 

 his comparisons of many horns and observations on the liv- 

 ing animal. We also have made researches on this subject, 

 both in America and in Europe, the result of which tends to 

 confirm the decision of the great Zoologist. But notwith- 

 standing this admission, we were always struck with the ob- 

 jection, that if the Canadian Stag and Wapiti were the 

 same, how can it be reconciled to the fact, that the last 

 mentioned, when first brought from the banks of the Mis- 

 souri, should have excited astonishment, and persuaded a 

 nation of sportsmen, such as the Americans, that it was a 



