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CERVUS. DEER 

 Generic Character. 



Cornua solida, tenera corio 

 hirto tecta aplceque cres- 

 centia, denudata, annua, 

 furcata. 



Denies Primores inferiores 

 octo. 



Laniarii nulli (interdum soli- 

 tarii superius). 



Horns solid, covered while 

 young with a hairy skinj 

 growing from the top, na- 

 ked, annual, branched. 



Front -teeth in the lower jaw 

 eight. 



Canine-teeth none (sometimes 

 single in the upper jaw). 



ELK. 



Cervus Aces. C. cornibus acaulihus palmatis, caruncida gutturali ^ 



Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 92. 

 Deer with stemless palmated horns, and guttural caruncle. 

 Alee. Gesn. Qnadr. i, p. i. Aldr. bisulc. p, 866. Jonst. 



Quadr. ^. 30, 31. 

 L'Elan. 12. p. 79. and Suppl. "j. p. 318. 320. pi. 80. 



Elk. Pennant Quadr i.p.io^. 



Moose Deer. Dudley. Phil. Trans. No. 36^. p. 165. Date 

 Pkil. Trans, No. 444.;?. 384. Jossclyn Voy. New Engl. p. 88. 



Cervus Alces. The Elk. Mvmim Leteiianum, vol. i. p. S3-' 

 pi 8. 



TThE Elk, by far the largest animal of this ge- 

 nus, is, Avhen full grown, scarcely inferior to a 

 horse in size. It is common to both continents, 

 inhabiting only the coldest regions, and is ob- 

 V. II. P. II. 18 



