295 MAMMALIA. PECORA. Deer. 



p. 869. 870. Jonft. quad. t. 30. 31. Olear. muf. t. 9. £ 2. Raj. quad. 86. J. F. Leopold, difl'. de 

 Alee. Bafil. 1700.— Moffe. Laet, Amer. 68.— Mofe Deer. Dudley, Phil. Tranf. n. 368. p. 165. 

 Dale, D°. abrid. ix. 85. t. 6. f. 50. — Elk. Lawfon, CaroL 123. Penn. hift. of quad. h. 42. pi. ix. 

 f. 1. 2.— Orignal. Charlev. nouv. Fr. iii. 126. — Elan, or Elk. Sm. Buff. vi. 315. pi. clxxxv. — 

 vElg. Faun. Suec. n. 39. — Lof. Rzaczinfki, Pol. 212 Moofe. Arch zool. n. 3. pi. viii. 



Inhabits Europe, America, and Afia as far as Japan. — This animal is chiefly found in the northern 

 parts of both continents, and frequents poplar woods and other, forefts, browzing on the twigs and 

 branches of trees; they iikewife often feed on marfh plants, and are faid to be very fond of the Ana- 

 gyris foetida, or Stinking Bean-trefoil. The Elk is as large as a Horfe, being five and a half feet high 

 before, and two inches higher behind ; the head is large, with very long, large, upright, flouching 

 ears ; a very broad, fquare, upper lip, deeply furrowed, and hanging much over the mouth ; a very 

 broad nofe, with large noftrils ; the herns have no brow antlers, the palms are very broad, plain on 

 the iniide, and having many fharp fnags on the outfide; the neck is fhort and flouching, with a fhort 

 upright mane, and a hairy wattle on the throat; the fhoulder is very high; the tail extremely fhort; the 

 hoofs are much divided, and the fpurious hoofs large and loofe : The general colour is a hoary black, 

 greyeft about the face. It is a mild animal, except in the feafon of love, when wounded, or when 

 teazed with the gad-fly. The pace is very ungraceful, conlifting of a high fhambling trot, during 

 which their fpurious hoofs make a loud rattling noife; but they go with great fwiftnefs, and were for- 

 merly ufed in Sweden to draw fledges, with which they have been known to travel more than fifty 

 miles a day. The hide is faid to be fo thick as to turn a mufket-ball, and makes excellent buff lea- 

 ther. The fiefh is reckoned very light and nourifhing ; the nofe is efteemed a great delicacy ; anal 

 the tongues, when faked, are much admired. 



640 /3. Iri£h Elk. — C. Alces fqffilis. 



The horns have long beams, are palmated, and are furniftied with flatted brow antlers; 

 the fnags on the palms are very long ; and there is one long fnag on the inner edge 

 of each palm. Penn. hift. of quad. p. 97. pi. xi. f. 1. 



The horns of this fpecies are frequently dug up from peat-bogs in Ireland, but the living animal is 

 unknown, having long been extirpated from that country ; the horns are vaftly larger than thofe of 

 the Elk, befides being very differently formed, and meafure fometimes eight feet long each, and four- 

 teen feet between their tips. 



2. Rein Deer.— 4. Cervus Tarandus. 4. 



Has long, rounded, flender horns, which bend forwards, and are palmated at the ends. 

 Schreber, v. t. ccxlviii. A. B. C. C. Faun. Suec. 41. Amoen. ac. iv. 144. t. i. Muf. ad. Fr. i. 11. 



T«sg*v^ 5 . Aclian. an. ii. c. 16.— Tarandus. Plin. hift. nat. viii. c. 34. Aklrov. bifulc 859. f. p. 

 861. Jonft. quad. 90. t. 37. Charlet. exer. 12. Scheff.Lap. 321. f. p. 327.— Rajigifer. Gefn. quad. 

 950. Aldrov. bifulc. 863. Jonft. quad. t. 37. Muf. Worm. 337. Scheff.Lap. 338. Charlet. exerc. 

 12. Klein, quad. 88. Oiear muf. 16. t. 10. f. 3.— Renne, or Fein Deer. Sm. Buff. vi. 315. 

 pi. clxxxvi.— Rein Deer. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 43. pi. x. f. 1. Arcl. zool. n. 4.— The anatomy. 

 Befthol. act. Haffn. 167 1, n. 135. Houften, aft. Stockh. J 774, vol. xxv. trim. 2. n. 4. 



