THE WAPITI. 
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mixed with grey all over the body : the 
is then furnished with thick long hair, whic^’' 
like the soft woolly fur on its forehead, is of ^ ' 
deeper brown ; the chin pure white, and th^ 
hind quarters and tail also white. In 
Griffiths’s translation of Cuvier’s “ AniiKi^j 
Kingdom” is a description by Major Smith ® 
a Wapiti seen by him in America. He 
three years old, four feet six inches high | 
the shoulder ; the' nose and legs were blacf^' I 
the neck and back dunnish brown, the cror^F i 
and tail almost white. The body was shap®^ 
like that of an ass ; the eyes were dark, , 
aspect mild, and the horns greatly deformed- ^ 
This animal sheds its horns like the rest , 
the deer tribe, and the growth of the 
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ones is so rapid as at one period to exce^' 
an inch and a half per day. When full gro 
the horns measure above three feet in lengf^’’ 
but in some individuals they are said to 
more than six. They seem to be instrumeP*'’ 
