976 



UNGTJLATA 



Diagnosis.- — Differs from 0. capreolus capreolus in general 

 darker colour, this particularly noticeable in the face, which is 

 darker than body, a peculiarity not occurring in other European 

 races. 



Measurements. — Head and body (of type), 1150 mm.; hind 

 foot, 330; ear, 127. For cranial measurements see Ta,ble, p. 983. 



Genus ALCES Gray. 



1821. Alces Gray, London Med. Bepos., xv, p. 307, April 1, 1821. 



1841. Alcelaphus Gloger, Hand- u. Hilfsbuch der Naturgeseh, I, p. 143 



(Substitute for Alces). Not of Blainville, 1816. 

 1857. Alces Blasius, Saugethiere Deutsohlands, p. 434. 

 1902. Paralces Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., xvi, p. 160, July 1, 



1902 (Substitute for Alces assumed to be a homonym of Alee 



Blumenbach, 1799). 



Type species. — Cervus alces Linnseus. 



Geographical distribution. — Northern forested portions of both 

 hemispheres ; in the Old World west to Norway and south to 

 eastern Germany. 



Characters. — Telemetaearpalian deer of largest size with 

 narrow, elongate hoofs, maxillary canines absent in both sexes,* 

 lower incisors (fig. 209) scarcely differentiated in form and not 

 much contrasted in size, lachrymal vacuity widely open, the 

 pit well developed, small, vomer low posteriorly, showing no 

 tendency to divide the posterior nares into two cavities, pre- 

 maxillary region of skull greatly lengthened and nasal region 

 shortened, so that distance from front of nasal to front of pre- 

 maxillary is about equal to that from back of nasal to back of 

 occiput ; antlers conspicuously palmate, present in male only ; 



* Sometimes present in a rudimentary condition (see LOnnberg, Zool. 

 Anzeiger, xxvm, pp. 448-449, January 17, 1905). 



