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Cervns canadensis. 



American Elk, Mitchell : Cat. Org. Rem. 1826, 32. Winchell : Am. Jour. Sc. 1864, XXXVIII, 



223-24. 

 Cervus canadensis, Cooper : Month. Am. Jour. Geol. 1831, 207. Briggs and Foster: Geolog. Surv. 



ofCanada, 1863, 914. 

 Elaphus americanm, Dekay : Nat. Hist. N. York, Zool. I, 1842, 120, PL XXIX, Fig. 2. 

 Elk, or Sta^, Harlan : Am. Jour. Sc. 1842, XLIII, 143. Hall : Nat. Hist. N. Y., Geology, Pt. 



IV, 1843, 364, 367. 

 Elaphus Canadensis, Hall : Boat. Jour. Nat. Hist. 1847, 391. 

 Cervus , Leidy : Anc. Fauna Nebraska, 1853, 9. 



Harlan refers to remains found with those of extinct animals at Newbern, N. C. 

 Mr. Cooper, in " Notices of Big-bone-lick," speaks of remains found in that locality. 

 Hall refers to remains found in similar positions to those of Mastodon, near New 

 Hudson, Alleghany Co., and in Chautauque Co., New York. 



The description and figure of a fragment of a skull, given by Dr. Dekay, from near 

 the mouth of Racket River, New York, appear to apply to this species. 



Portions of two antlers in the Museum of the Academy were obtained in the earth 

 just above the cretaceous green sand near Deal, Monmouth Co., New Jersey. 



Cervus alces. 



Cooper: Month. Am. Jour. Geol. 1831, 207. 



Remains at Big-bone-lick, Kentucky. Quaternary and recent. 



Cervns tarandns. 



Reindeer, Mitchell : Cat. Org. Rem. N. Y. 1826, 26. Bucklaud: Append, to Beechey's Voyage, 



1831, 595, 597, 605, PI. Ill, Figs. 11—13. Leidy : Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. 1858, 179. Fisher: 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. 1859, 194. 

 Cervus tarandus, Cooper: Month. Am. Jour. Geol. 1831, 207. Richardson: Zoology Voyage 

 Herald, 1854, 20. 



Remains at Eschscholtz Bay, Alaska ; Racket River, and Sing Sing, New York ; 

 near Vincentown, New Jersey ; and Big-bone-lick, Kentucky. 



An antler of a Reindeer, perhaps of an extinct species, preserved in the Museum of 

 the Academy, is represented in figure 9, plate XXYIII. It was presented by Mr. 

 Carlton Moore, and was found near Vincentown, Burlington Co., New Jersey, at a 

 depth of four feet from the surface, in the stratum of earth overlying the green sand. 



The specimen, apparently of the right side, has its upper extremity broken off, and 

 in the present condition is about two feet in length. It is not petrified, but is some- 

 what friable, and is in the usual condition of preservation of the remains of Cervun 

 virginianus, G. canadensis, the Beaver, the Muskrat, and the Mastodon, found in 

 similar positions in New Jersey. 



The antler bears a nearer resemblance to those of the Barren Ground Reindeer tlian 

 it does to those of the Woodland Reindeer, but diflers in some respects from the 



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