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by M. Cuvier as a specific name. It has occasionally been called Cervus Major, which 

 appellation it received from Catesby. This deer is called Le Biche by the Canadian 

 voyagers, it is the We-was-keesh of Hearne, and the Wa-was-keeshoo of the Cree 

 Indians. It is also sometimes called by the Americans, the Elk, and is the American 

 Elk of some, and the Round-horned Elk of others, of their writers. Fourth, the 

 Wapiti Deer, (Cervus Wapiti,) come from the Rocky Mountains, and the valleys ad- 

 joining-, but not from the eastern side of that ridge ; they are inhabitants of mountain- 

 ous distrcts, not living either in the plains or in woods ; and abound on the Multnomah 

 fork of the Columbia River. The Wapiti have within these few years become well 

 known in England, having been imported at different times for exhibition. Some of 

 those first introduced have been domesticated, they have succeeded well in the 

 paddock of the proprietor, and increased in number, breeding readily. It has been 

 supposed that the Red-deer of the northern parts of America, and the Wapiti are 

 identical, but this opinion certainly requires confirmation. The appellation of 

 Wapiti is derived from a tribe of Indians, who inhabit the western side of the 

 Rocky Mountains, but were erroneously supposed to be settled on the Missouri. All 

 the other names given to the Wapiti Deer, have led to much confusion respecting 

 them. Bewick, who figured one at a very early period, called it the American Elk, 

 and even at the present time this same error has been committed by M. Desmerest. 

 Mr. Ord (and, after him, M. Desmerest) called the animal Cervus Major, which has 

 been before applied by Catesby, to what has been above noticed as Cervus Canaden- 

 sis. Fifth, a deer hitherto imperfectly known, has been recently distinguished in 

 the account of Major Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains ; it is the Black-tailed 

 Deer of Lewis and Clarke, and has been called Cervus Macrotis by Mr. Say, who ac- 

 companied Major Long as a naturalist. Sixth, a Deer with a large tail, and which is 

 known, in its native country, as the Black-tailed Deer, (Cervus Macrourus,) has been 

 spoken of as inhabiting the countries watered by the Missouri. It is peculiar, from 

 the size and contrasted colours of its tail, which it shews conspicuously in running. 

 Seventh, the Cervus Virginianus is well known as the Fallow Deer of North America, 

 but does not extend itself so far as the Arctic Circle; M. Cuvier refers to it the 

 Mazame of the Mexicans, and the Cariacou of Daubenton. Eighth, the American 

 Roe of Buffon has been referred to the Cervus Mexicanus of Linnzeus, which is also 

 conjectured by Pennant to be the Squinaton of Dobbs ; the Jumping Deer of the 

 Canadian Voyagers is probably the same animal. Dr. Richardson states that in the 

 neighbourhood of Carlton-House, two deer are frequent, which differ much from each 

 other in appearance, that they are indiscriminately called Apeesce-Mongsoos, Or, Little 

 Moose ; but are occasionally distinguished, as, — 1st., The Athee-Neettoo Apeesce- 

 Mongsoos, or, Real Little Moose ; and, — 2d, Kinwaithoos or Kinwaithoo-wayo Apeesce- 

 Mongsoos, or Long-tailed Little Moose. 



