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congener by the skull being narrowed across the 

 maxillaries, also by its greater size and darker 

 color." But differences of size and color are often 

 quite as manifest when comparing moose of New 

 Brunswick and Nova Scotia. As for the maxil- 

 laries, if it is necessary to measure the breadth of 

 jaw of two living wild moose for purpose of specific 

 classification, few of us are fleet enough of foot, 

 and brave enough, to obtain the necessary data. 

 It would be interesting to know into how many 

 species the human race would be divided 

 if similar subdivision were attempted. John 

 Jones, who is tall and dark-haired, with nar- 

 row jaw, would be likely to find himself in a 

 different species from his brother Joseph, who, 

 responding to some atavistic tendency, happens 

 to be short and a blond, with the square jaw of 

 an athlete. 



Judge Caton, author of The Antelope and Deer 

 of America^ referring to the American moose and 

 the elk of Scandinavia, wrote: "If one from either 

 side of the Atlantic were transferred to the other, 

 no one would suspect that he was an emigrant."'^ 

 Richard Lydekker, a high English authority, 

 quotes with approval from Judge Caton, and adds: 

 "It seems impossible to regard the Old World 



'7 A Summer in Norway, p. 327. 



