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TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Plaster casts have 

 been taken, and the specimens thus multiplied, are con- 

 tained in many European cabinets, among others, we 

 have furnished the "Jardin des Plantes," Paris, and 

 the Geological Society of London. 



ORDER RUMINANTIA. 



Genus Cervus. 

 C. JlmericanuS) Harlan, 



Fauna Americana, p. 245 ; Wistar, Trans. Am. Philos. Soc. vol. i. new series, 

 p. 375, pL 10, fig. 4. Fossil Elk of the United States of North America. 



The present fossil species was first established on a 

 mutilated skull in the cabinet of the American Philoso- 

 phical Society, presented by the late President Jeffer- 

 son ; the species appears to be nearest related to the 

 common elk of North America, (Cervus Canadensis, 

 Briss.) although it displays several characters which 

 distinguish it from all other species, living or fossil, 

 hitherto introduced into the systems. Judging from 

 the skull, the animal was larger than our common 

 elk. 



Locality. The bones of this fossil elk are not unfre- 

 quently found in the celebrated morass near the Ohio 

 river, Big- bone-lick, in company with the bones of the 

 Mastodon. Some fossil bones were observed by Dr. 

 Bigsby in Canada, which from designs in his possession 

 are judged to have belonged to the fossil Elk. 



