Order UNGULATA: Hoofed 

 Quadrupeds 



Family CERVIDAE 



Subfamily CERVINAE 



MOOSE 



ALCES AMERICANUS (Jard.) 



Cervus alces Linn. Syst, Nat., 1, 1758, p. 66. 



Alces americanus Jard., Nat. Libr., Mamm., 1835, p. 125. 



Alces machlis Ogilby, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1836, p. 135. 



Alces palmatus Gray, List. Mamm. Brit, Mus., 1843, p. 182. 



Cervus lobatus Agass., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1846, p. 188. 



Alces muswa Rich., Zool. of Herald, Mamm., 1852, p. 66. 



Description — Muzzle very broad, produced, covered 

 with hair ; except a small, moist naked spot in front of the 

 nostrils. Neck short and thick; hair thick and brittle; 

 throat rather maned in. both sexes ; hind legs have tuft of 

 hair rather above the middle of the metatarsus ; the males 

 have palmate horns. The nose cavity in the skull is very 

 large, reaching behind to a line over the front of the 

 grinders ; the intermaxillaries are very long, but do not 

 reach to the nasal. The nasals are very short. The moose 

 is the largest of the American deer, quite equalling a horse 

 in bulk. (Baird.) A fine bull moose in prime condition 

 was black on forelegs, breast, shoulders, flanks, hams, sha- 

 ding into rusty brown on withers, back, neck, and head; 

 palest on nose and lips and shaded into white on the belly; 

 the insides of the ears also are whitish, the legs from the 

 knee to the ground are a pale warm gray or Caribou color. 

 The appearance of the animal at a distance is that of a black 

 beast, with brown head and white stockings. The coat fades 

 toward springtime. (Seton.) 



Distribution — Many years ago John Burton of Kays- 

 ville, Utah, killed a moose on the mountain slope between 

 Kaysville and Farmington, Davis County. According to 

 Gerald Thorne of Logan, Utah, an occasional moose is seen 

 in the Bear Lake region, Utah. 



A man by the name of Barclay over a dozen years ago 

 killed a moose at the head of Spanish Fork canyon. Herbert 

 Cromar, who was then game commissioner, seized the head 



