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UNGULATA 



general form heavy, the shoulders high ; upper lip conspicuously 

 produced in front ; muzzle hairy except for a very small median 

 bare spot ; throat of male with pendant flap of skin ; young not 

 spotted with white, their colour essentially like that of adults. 



Remarks. — The genus Alces contains four currently recognized 

 species or geographical forms, two in America and two in the 

 Old World. Only one occurs in Europe. 



ALCES ALCES Linnseus. 



1758. [Gervus] alces Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., I, 10th ed., p. 66. 



1829. ? Alces europeeus Burnett, Quart. Journ. Soi. Lit. Art, 1829, 353 



(nomen nudum). 

 1836. Alces machlis Ogilby, Proo. Zool. Soo. London, p. 135 (Benaming of 



alces). 



1842. Alces antiqucrrum Biippell, Museum Senckenbergianum, in, p. 183 



(Renaming of alces). 



1843. Alces palmatus Gray, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., p. 182 (Ee- 



naming of alces). 

 1857. Alces palmatus Blasius, Saugethiere Deutschlands, p. 434. 

 1860. Alces jubata Fitzinger, Wissenoh.-pop. Naturgesoh. der Saugethiere, 



iv, p. 86 (Benaming of alces). 

 1898. Alces alces Lydekker, Deer of all Lands, p. 54. 

 1910. Alces alces Trouessart, Faune Mamm. d'Europe, p. 270. 



Geographical distribution. — Forested portions of northern and 

 central Europe ; now confined, in the region west of Russia, to the 

 wilder parts of the Scandinavian Peninsula and eastern Germany. 



Alces alces. 



fig. 209. 

 Inoisiform teeth. 



Nat. size. 



Diagnosis. — General characters as in the genus Alces ; heighfi 

 at shoulder about two meters ; general colour brown, lighter and 



