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THE ELK, OR MOOSE. 
to be used in tlie time of war, to be employed as 
flying artillery, to reconnoitre, and cany dispatches. 
This is the only animal which will rank in sub- 
genus Alces, though, to another animal, known only 
by the horns, the name of coronaiui has been ap- 
plied by Cuvier. They are in the Paris Museum, 
bear sixteen snags, but are scarcely a foot in length : 
they stand about three inches asunder, and more on 
the forehead than in the common Elk ; and Mr 
Smith thinks' they must have been borne by an ani- 
mal not larger than the fallow-deer, and states his 
opinion that it may prove to be the Kistuke or little 
Elk of the Rocky Mountain Indians. The next 
form is now known by the subgeneric title of Unn- 
