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And, 3. That besides these two animals, we have the rein deer, or cervus tarandus, of the 

 old world, called with us the caribou. 



Buffon says, that the cervus Virginianus, is only a variety of the cervus dama, the com- 

 mon or fallow deer of Europe. 



Have we any other species of cervi ? 



Have we the roe deer, or cervus capreolus ? Buffon says it is found throughout all 

 North America. 



Have we the red deer, cervus elephas ? Jefferson says that it is an American animal, 

 and that it weighs two hundred and seventy-three pounds. 



What animal is that called by Lewis and Clark in their Travels, the mule deer ? 



A young moose has been lately exhibited at Albany as a show. It is hoped that some 

 of the scientific gentlemen of that city have directed their particular attention to it. 



NOTE R. 



The able editors of the American Medical and Philosophical Register, knowing my 

 partiality for this distinguished naturalist, requested me to write a review of the five last 

 volumes of his American Ornithology. This request I complied with, although fully 

 sensible of my unfitness for the task. As this review contains a full statement of my 

 view of Mr. Wilson's great work, it may not be improper to insert it in this note. 



[From the American Medical and Philosophical Register, vol. 4.] 



American Ornithology; or the Natural History of the Birds of the United Slates; 

 illustrated with plates, engraved and coloured from original drawings taken from 

 Nature. By Alexander Wilson. Philadelphia. Inskeep & Bradford. Imperial 

 4to vols. 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th. About 120 pages each: 1812—14* 



The author of the American Ornithology having closed his earthly career before he 

 finished that important work, the task of completing the ninth and last volume, devolved 

 upon his friend and executor, Mr. George Ord, who has prefixed to it an interesting 

 biography of Mr. Wilson. Having, on former occasions, noticed several of the volumes, 

 it now remains for us to pay the last tribute of respect to a man whom we esteem, and to 

 an author whose works will always occupy an important rank among the writings on 

 Natural History. 



