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CEEVUS ALOES.— Link. 
Moose Deer. 
PLATE LXXVI. Old Male and Yootg. 
C. magnitudine Equi ; capite permagno, labro auribusque elongatis ; 
collo brevi, dense jubato, cornibus palmatis, cauda brevissima, vellere 
fusco cinereo, in nigrum vergente. 
CHARACTERS. 
She of a horse. Head, very large ; snout and ears, long ; neck, short, 
ivith a thick mane. Horn's spreading into a broad palm. Tail, short. 
Colour, blackish-gray. 
SYNONYMES. 
Elan, Stag, or Apiaptou. De Monts Nova Francia, p. 250. An. 1604. 
Eslan ou Orinal. Sagard-Theodat, Canada, p. T49. An. 1636. 
Ori.nal. La Hontan, Voy., p. 72. An. 1703. 
Moose Deer. Dudley, Phil. Trans. No. 368, p. 165. An. 1721. 
Orinal. Charlevoi.x. Nouv. France. Vol. v., p. 185. An. 1741. 
“ Dupratz, Loins. Vol. i., p. 301. 
Moose Deer. Pennant, Arot. Zool. Vol. i., p. 17, Fig. 1784. 
Moose. Umfrevillc, LTuds. Bay. An. 1790. 
“ Herriot’s Travels, 1807, Fig. 
C. ALOES. Harlan. Fauna, p. 229. 
“ Godman, Am. Nat. Hist., Vol. ii., p. 274. 
The Elk. Hamilton Smith. 
“ Griffith’s Cuv., Vol. v., p. 303. 
American Black Elk. Griffith’s Cuv., Vol. iv., p. 72., plate of head. 
Elk. In Nova Scotia, proceedings of the Zoological Society, 1849, p. 93. 
Cervub aloes. De Kay, N. Hist. N. Y., p. 115. 
BESCRIPTION. 
This is the largest of any known species of deer. Major Smith (Cuv. 
An. Kingdom, by Griffiths, Vol. iv., p. 73) says, “For us, who have the oppor- 
tunity of receiving the animal in all the glory of his full grown horns, 
