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THE AVAPITI. 
Cervus Canadensu. — Bkisson. 
PLATE IX. 
Wapiti, Barton. — Fred. Cornier, Hist. Nat. des Mammif . — 
Landseer's Charact. Sketches Cervus Canadensis, Bris. 
■ — Cerv. Wiijjiti. — Cervus mn]oT, Desmarest, Mammalogie, 
432 — Griffith's Cnv. Snbgeuus Etaphas. — Cervus strongy- 
loccros, (Sfhreiber) Richardson, Fauna Boreal. Amer. 
i, 251. 
The true Wapiti inhabits the savannahs in the in- 
terior of tlie more northern parts of North America. 
“ The animal does not extend its range farther to 
the north than tlie fifty-sixth or fifty-seventh parallel 
of latitude ; nor is it found to the eastward of a line 
drawn from the south end of Lake Winnipeg to the 
.Saskatchewan, in the 103d degree of longitude, and 
from thence till it strikes the Elk lliverin the 111th 
degree. They are pretty numerous amongst the 
clumps of wood that skirt the plains of the Saskat- 
chewan, where they live in small families of six or 
seven individuals.”* 
• Kicliardson’s Fauna Bor. Amer. 251. 
