NORTH AMERICAN RUMINANTS 



nants. particularly the so-called "tusks" of the Elk, have been used by 

 the Indians for ornamental purposes. Sp< i illustrating such u es 



will be found in the same halls. The Museum Memoir on the Thompson 

 River Indians, by James Teit, contains descriptions of many such 

 ments and implements, and the specimens therein described are on 

 exhibition in these halls. 



The ancestors of the higher Ruminants are mainly of Old-World 

 origin and are comparatively scarce and late in appearance in the 



•'. beds of cur own continent. The following exhibits in the 

 Hall ' Vertebrates, No. 406, on the fourth floor of the Museum, 



\amined by the readers of this Guide Leaflet wh<> 

 1 ut ion: 



or Irish Elk, (Megaceros hibernicus Owen). 

 k, Ireland, a form which is related to the recent gi 



I 1 cimen w. cited to the Museum by Prof. All 



S. Bickmore. 



A Model, one-fourth natural size, of Cervalces, the greal Moose- 

 Elk from the Pleistocene beds of NY- The skeleton is in the 

 Princeton museum. 



A hind limb of a fossil Bison from the western Pleistocene 1 



ka. 

 The mounted skeleton of Merycodus from the Middle Mi- 



Colorado. This is an extinct type of Antelope, n the 



rn, but possessed of branching, deciduou antlers like 



those ieer. 



Skulls and other parts of Pakeomeryx and other M 

 of the Deer. — Editor. 





