CERVID/E 237 



A provisional race, characterised by the muffle being 

 T-shaped (fig. 38), in place of triangular (fig. 37). 

 No specimen in collection. 



Fig. 38. — Muzzle of Ontabio Elk {Alces alces coliimbx), 



showing T-shaped muffle. 



From the type specimen, in tlie collection of Capt. E. C. Hamilton. 



E.— Alces alces gigas. 



Aloes gigas, Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. xiii, p. 57, 1899, 



List N. Amer. Mavim. p. 391, 1912. 

 Alces machlis gigas, Lydehher, Great and Small Game of Europe, etc. 



p. 49, 1901 ; Ward, Becords of Big Game, ed. 6, p. 97, 1910, 



ed. 7, p. 97, 1914. 

 Paralces gigas, Allen, Bull. Arncr. Mus. Nat. Hist. vol. xvi, p. 160, 1902. 



Typical locality Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. 



Type in U.S. National Museum, Washington. 



Larger and more richly coloured than A. a. americanus, 

 with the occipital region of the skull narrower, the palate 

 wider, and the lower jaw stouter. General colour grizzled 

 black and wood-brown, darker on spine, clear black on chest, 

 flanks, and buttocks, and hair-brown on middle line of 

 under surface; head more finely grizzled than back; ears 

 broccoli-brown externally, yellowish white internally ; limbs 

 hair-brown or broccoli-brown, with darker shading. 



