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occasionally found in America. Such a pair from 

 Manitoba is illustrated in Ernest Thompson 

 Seton's Life Histories of Northern Animals^ vol. 

 1., p. 156. 



Mr. Lydekker failed to give the history of the 

 particular specimen upon which he based his 

 classification of Alces bedfordice, and Mr. Marten- 

 son may after all be right in assuming that it had 

 its origin in European Russia, ''of the existence 

 of which," he says, "Mr. Lydekker seems not to 

 be aware." The Englishman is commonly looked 

 upon as a 'Mumper" by other naturalists, and he 

 has disputed with some warmth the position of 

 those who would treat the moose of America as of a 

 different species from the elk of Europe. 



See page 57. In Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game (seventh 

 edition, 1914), three specimens of the "East Siberian elk {Alces machlis 

 bedfordicB)'' are described. The best has a width of 42 inches, 6+5 

 points, and inches circumference above burr. These antlers belong 

 to Hon. Walter Rothschild. 



